Category Archives: sports

Last Night Game at the Old Memorial Stadium

Last Saturday was the last night game that will be played in the old Memorial Stadium. After this season, the stadium will be renovated for earthquake safety and to create a new and competitive student athlete center. Next season the Bears will … Continue reading

23rd Annual Tri For Fun #2

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, … Continue reading

Wildflower 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 … Continue reading

22nd Annual Tri For Fun #3

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 … Continue reading

22nd Annual Tri For Fun #1

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 … Continue reading

Wildflower

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 … Continue reading

Stinson Beach Trail Run

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 … Continue reading

2008 Treasure Island Olympic Triathlon

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 … Continue reading

2008 Fight Gone Bad

On Saturday, my local CrossFit affiliate had our Fight Gone Bad day. This was my first official FGB, and having only done it one other time, I decided to forgo the official men’s weight, and do the intermediate weight (which … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading