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, [...]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Jose [...]
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 [...]
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Tonight I completed my first competitive 10k. Two weeks ago, I did the Nike+ Human Race, though I don’t really consider that in the same level, since it was by my self and there weren’t others to get the same competitive drive.
So I did the Palo Alto Online Moonlight run in 46 minutes, 29 seconds. [...]
