White break and cross training

After last week's fat ass in the snow , we left the Bay Area on Tuesday night for Lake Tahoe. The weather was perfect on Wednesday and w...

2nd Saratoga Fat Ass: humbling workout

We are rich in the Bay Area. I am not talking about the elite of the Valley who had dinner with President Obama on Thursday night . I mean t...

Yet another busy week, for a change...

First, a lot of running with 97.8 miles since Jed Smith last Saturday. Quite a good recovery week, isn't? As a matter of fact, I was jok...

Bay Area residents, how much Mercury do you like?

This is not my typical blog, running experience or race report but time is of essence for this post. If you are checking by blog once a week...

Jed Smith 2010: a new and sunny course

With some shame, I'm going to start with an anecdote which shows that I was not raised here and I still have some work to catchup with t...

Another busy running weekend

2 posts in one this weekend... 1. One month to build the speed back After 4 work-outs this week (9, 9, 6 and 6 miles respectively on Monday,...

Around the world: once!

No, I am not talking about flying around the world. With more than 1.4 million air miles, I already did that several times and have enough c...