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Posted in: Blog Posts in Running
It's been a while. I have been too busy to keep my postings up to date, but plan to be better about it. Lots of stuff going on. I have been slacking on the running, so I wasn ...
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High anxiety: Armando Armenta, Gina Natera's husband, sweats it out. All photos in this post by Kenneth Steinhardt, OC Register, except for Gina's pix, which was plucked from ...
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Unless somebody talks me out of this quickly, I am good to go for the first-ever running of the Chimera 100. Why? The race, the brainchild of sadistic Old Goats RD Steve Har ...
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These folks, my buds who are part of the "Dawn Patrol" group every Tuesday at El Moro, know how to run. I am a renegade of sorts, doing my own thing when it comes to ...
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Here are some images from a short (8-mile) but very sweet run this week while camping with the kids at Two Harbors. Most of these photos were taken near where the turnaround p ...
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After the damage was done. The Mt. Disappointment 50-miler on Aug. 8. was my 10th 50-miler (and 19th official ultra race that I have completed; still no DNFs, knock on wood) s ...
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I had a good day! I will try to wrap my head around it when I locate my head. Am not sure about what place I was overall (somewhere under 20), but I finished the 50-miler in ...
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Jack Felsenfeld, 5 1/2, has autism. We all have our reasons for running -- some of them elaborate, complex backstories, others more simple ("I want to get rid of these un ...
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Leigh Corbin at around mile 90. She would hit a low point (among lows) at mile 95. Oh wow, Badwater was an amazing experience in all senses of the word -- the good, the bad an ...
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Every ultrarunner thinks about it. Most of us dismiss it as foolhardy or crazy or something so beyond our grasp that we can't take it seriously. Badwater, we tell ourselves, t ...
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Just some of the runners who kept Michelle M. (center, back) company during her "Elmorothon." Had the greatest group run this morning in El Moro, where Michelle M. d ...
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Ted NewcombTed Newcomb runs 5½ miles to work each day and then back home – a 55-mile weekly "commute." Good thing he manages a running store. Not only ...
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That's the amount of pledges received from the recent Nanny Goat run for the Megan Myers Foundation. Fellow runners and dear friends Alexa Dickerson and Kirk Fortini join me i ...
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At the top of Dreaded Hill in Whiting Ranch. I have been a total crank, a beotch in the throes of "that time" of the month, a Republican -- you name it, I have been ...
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Dennis Koors Ah, to be a talented runner, a super nice guy, a philanthropist at heart -- and a heartthrob, to boot! Life ain't fair. Get over it. Meanwhile, for those of you ...
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Last year, near the start/finish line, on the afternoon before the start of the San Diego 100. It's hard to believe that it's been a year since I ran my first 100-miler, in Sa ...
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How dispiriting Right knee irritating Hurt from Nanny Goat So pulled out this old boat from the garage life just a mirage No longer a runner? Could there be a worse bum ...
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Slogging through the jungle in 2008. I'm in for the Coastal Challenge "Route of Fire" for 2010, returning to the same gorgeous country, grueling trails and amazing p ...
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I had resisted running in insane "loop" races in which runners go around and around, endlessly, like hamsters in a cage, hour after hour, on very short loops (try on ...
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