Spring spree

Spree: a period of unrestrained self-indulgence... After welcoming Spring with a poem last week , I'm enjoying this extended period wit...

Spring musing

After 109 posts on this blog, here is a new genre, a poem. No rhymes, but an acrostic and 24 alexandrins! To recount my day. Here you are......

Way Too Cool '09: longer, slower

Preamble : this is a long report, for a relatively short ultra. If you are in a hurry, you may want to jump to my Picasa photo album with A...

Happy Birthday, Chris

Dear Chris, Like someone said on the Evite, it is hard to think that you turned 30! ;-) After Chuck's 60th celebration on the trails , t...

Napa: so close...

Or should I say: close enough? To make a long story short, I was shooting for 2:45 , first to commemorate my 45th birthday and, second, to s...

Marathon: are you ready?

Like we politely say in the US: that is a good question...! With races spanning from January (e.g. the Arizona Rock 'n Roll) to December...

No snow but a new park

This story started 10 years ago... Shortly after we immigrated to California at the end of October 1998, we got some snow on both sides of t...