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23rd Annual Tri For Fun #2

Friday, August 20th, 2010

This post is pretty late, but I figured it is still good to post for record keeping. Back in July, I did the Tri For Fun just to get back in the grove. This was my first Tri since Wildflower, yet I had barely preped for the race at all. I think I rode my [...]


Wildflower 2010

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Despite this being a bit late, I still wanted to recap my 2010 Wildflower experience. This year, I elected to begin my training with some high altitude training in South America. So instead of doing a bunch of preparatory triathlons leading up to Wildflower, I went on a month-long trip to Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia and [...]


22nd Annual Tri For Fun #3

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

This post is pretty late, but I figured it is still good to post for record keeping. In June, I did the Tri For Fun #1 and it was the first triathlon for a couple of my friends. Well, I must have some great powers of persuasion, because I convinced two more people to start [...]


22nd Annual Tri For Fun #1

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

This past Saturday I did the first in the Tri for Fun series in Pleasanton. This was my first race since Wildflower, and my first race since getting injured. The race went well, and I felt pretty comfortable the whole time, though my legs were quite tired. Which is to be expected after not running [...]


Wildflower

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Wildflower: “The Woodstock of Triathlons”. I can now say this seems like a very accurate description.  This past weekend was the twenty-something-th running of the Wildflower Triathlon event at Lake San Antonio on the Central Coast. I had first heard of Wildflower a few years back when my sister told me about an event she [...]


The North Face Endurance Challenge 10k

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Over the weekend, I participated in a trail running 10k. I did the 10k distance, which turned out to be more difficult than my previous trail run. This course wasn’t as aggressive as the Dip Sea trail, with a sloping 1000 foot elevation gain, followed by a steep downhill back to the start, where we [...]


Stinson Beach Trail Run

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Over the weekend, I participated in my first Pacific Coast Trail Runs event.  I did the Stinson Beach 12k which turned out to be a more difficult event than I expected.  The trail has a pretty aggressive elevation gain with just about all of the gain at the start of the trail.  Starting from Stinson [...]


2008 Treasure Island Olympic Triathlon

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

A couple months ago I heard about the San Francisco Triathlon on Treasure Island.  At the time, I knew there was a sprint and an Olympic distance, but relegated myself to the sprint distance. However, after the last triathlon I did, I just decided to try for the Olympic distance.  Last year, in 2007, I [...]


The Quicksilver Challenge 5k / 10k / Half-Marathon

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Over the weekend, I did my second 10k in 3 weeks. A running club in San Jose holds an annual trail running event with different distances. I chose to do the 10k distance as that is right now the longest distance I’m comfortable running. The course was located in the hills south west of San [...]


15th Annual Tri For Real

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

This morning I did my second triathlon of 2008. It was the 15th Annual Tri For Real.  This is the triathlon which the Tri for Fun series is supposed to prepare you for.  The race was good, and I felt decently comfortable for the swim and bike.  As usual, the bike seemed to be a [...]


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