a barrel of this

Done and dusted. I completed the San Francisco Half Marathon this morning with a time of 1:39:48. I came in 162 place, 125th out of my age group. I ran the second half because it was flatter, went by my house, and started at a reasonable time (8:15 AM as opposed to 5:30AM). […]

I am bib #22330 on Sunday. Also of note: soccer. Not the best warm up for a running race. I took a ball point blank to the side of the leg which left a nice round bruise on my right knee. I also picked up a knock on the left knee. I would not recommend […]

This was my last run of any distance before Sunday’s race. Thr is a rest day, Friday a soccer day, and Saturday a feet up on the couch day. Actually, I might go cycling Saturday in order to get downtown to pick up my race packet. Felt a little creaky but I managed to have […]

1 week to go and I had to prove to myself that 13 miles is going to be possible. I’m certain now that it is. This gives me all the confidence back that I had lost by getting sick. I do wish there was more recovery time between this run and next week. My ITBS […]

I am in trouble. I caught a cold on Sunday and I’ve been doing nothing but sleeping and working since then. I finally went out for a brief evening run. But everything was tightening up. I tried to run slow and ease back into it but, as we’ve learned, I can’t pace myself to save […]

It wasn’t 108 degrees like Sacramento would have been but, it was still quite warm for San Francisco today. I ran around 3PM too which wasn’t all that bright. I always intend to go earlier or later in the day but by late afternoon on a weekend I’m pretty antsy to get outside. Today I […]

It was toasty down in the South Bay today but, I wanted to go back to Stevens Creek Trail since the last time I was there the ITBS set in for the first time and I was suffering pretty badly. This time around I managed to get from my work place to the memorial for […]

Just a short run this morning. Sort of like a recovery run but, a day late. Felt crap. It is supposed to be well over 100 degrees in Sacramento this weekend and our friend who was going to split the canoeing with K. is ill so it is looking like I’m going to skip the […]

Time to crank up the mileage. The park was sunny towards the panhandle and foggy out at the ocean. Very pleasant running conditions. I wore an Iliotibial band compression wrap for the first time. I stupidly put it on the right leg first because I was afraid that leg was becoming inflicted by ITBS as […]

Today I decided to drive down to work in order to pick up my new espresso machine because I am a dirty, dirty yuppie and just had to have an expensive toy that I have little hope of operating correctly. As a side bonus for enduring the irritating drive down 101 I decided to do […]