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My 50th 50K: so cold, so hard, yet so cool!
It's not easy to find a race to celebrate your birthday, even much so a National Championship! With that, it was a no brainer for me to come back to Long Island, NY, to run the 50K Road National. Last...
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Way Too Cool 50K 2015: so fast, yet so slow...
In 2006 Way Too Cool was my first 50K and ultra race. I did this race every year since so that's the event I ran the most out of 110 ultras. Although I wasn't blogging yet in 2006, I started a year...
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PAUSATF LDR 2014 Awards: another great harvest!
I started running ultras in 2006 (Way Too Cool 50K in March) and found out about our local MUT Grand Prix later that year. I got hooked to it and that provided me with many racing and training goals....
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2015 outlook: the planned and... unplanned
It is almost the end of the first quarter of 2015, we already are out of the winter season --not that we've seen any of a winter in California unfortunately...-- it feels kind of late to talk about...
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American River 50-mile 2015: a painful recovery run
American River, a long history for me of ups and downs. I toed the start every year since 2008 so this year was my 8th. In 2008, I had one of these major exercise-induced asthma crisis and I had to...
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MadCity 100K Road Nationals: not even a PR
It's barely the second quarter and already my 3rd Championship and 6th ultra race this year, what a start! I know I'm playing with the fire but what can I say, that ultra running is a big experiment...
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Ruth Anderson ultras 2015: quite a few loops, again...
Since I started running ultras in 2006, that was my 9th consecutive participation to the Ruth Anderson ultras (2007-2015), a long ultra tradition per Stan Jensen's records on his informative run100.com...
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Miwok 100K 2015: pushing hard to celebrate 20 years
Miwok 100K, an ultra tradition in the Bay Area, more exactly in Marin County, across the amazing Marin Headlands, just North of the Golden Gate. It was actually my 9th consecutive one and, now that...
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QuickSilver 100K 2015: very mixed feelings...
First, I want to apologize especially to all the volunteers for not being able to return their smiles and admitting that I had a terrific race this Saturday. The fact of the matter is that I was really...
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Ohlone 62K: A mere consolation
After such a dry winter for the past 4 years, leading to a dramatic drought in California, it has been an interesting weather in May... It rained a few days before Miwok 100K and we ran the first half...
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The Paris 50K: Running therapy?
I didn't post last week and I don't like falling behind my weekly pace... But I'll argue that I had three excuses: spending quality time with the family while grieving Agnes' mother, attending to my...
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Buckle off: the monthly Quicksilver Trail Runners Strava segment
First, I have a question to Sara Spelt and all English majors out there: what would you say is the opposite of buckle-up? It can't be buckle down, this means "set to work with vigor." Of course, as a...
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Summer Solstice 24-hour: plan then improv...ise (part 1)
If you follow this blog regularly, you know this wasn't my first 24-hour event. As a matter of fact, I ran my very first one at this venue last year (and celebrating my 100th ultra race!), then 2...
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Running in Granville: down to Bec d'Andaine on GR 223
In French, GR stands for Chemin de Grande Randonnée, the top National label for hiking trails. GR 223 covers the entire border/littoral of the Cotentin and the department of the Manche. I already...
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Too busy in France, yet still running, whee!
I can't believe it has been almost 4 weeks already since my last post on this blog which I have been trying to keep on a weekly pace so diligently for 8 years... I have to admit that I lost a bit of...
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Redwood Anvil 20-mile: so glad to be back on our hills!
It has been a few days already, but what a come-back weekend in California! I was really excited to run the inaugural Redwood Anvil 20-miler following an invitation from the 4 Race Directors. My...
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Happy 30th birthday, Ultimate Direction!
[Disclaimer: I'm not a UD Ambassador, and much less a UD Athlete, but I do receive a discount on Ultimate Direction products nowadays. That being said for 10 years, I didn't, I was, and still am, just...
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Skyline 50K 2015: cloud nine for #9?
I like sharing pictures in my posts, especially race reports, as they are worth a thousand words, great time saving for me... and you! When I don't have any, I'd use my GPS track to illustrate the...
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Burning hot and dry California: global warming a hoax, really?
Often these days I'm dreaming Albert Einstein would still be with us and help us formulate a proof that global warming is real and man made! He had such a genius to make things way more complicated and...
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Tamalpa 50K Nationals: did you say rainy California?
For many people around the world, there is only one California, and that's a sunny one! And maybe too sunny these days which led us into this serious droughts and blazing wild fires. We are so much...
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