Brisk walk home from work (2 miles). 30 minutes run/walk, 10/50 ratio. Hills. (This is Oakland. The only way not to have hills is to run back & forth along the Embarcadero. *yawn*)

Feeling really good. We think we're going to extend the run/walk - probably 45 minutes next time. Galloway says not to do too much, no going too fast or too far, but ( Read more... )

Back in June I saw a news article saying that the first Oakland marathon in 25 years had been approved for March 2010. For some reason it stuck with me, despite my only experience with running before now having been failing the run-a-mile-in-10-minutes-or-less portion of the mandatory President's physical fitness test in high school PE class ( Read more... )

From an SFGate article on the upcoming 2010 Oakland Marathon - the first marathon in Oakland in more than 25 years:News of the marathon is beginning to make its way through local online groups of long-distance runners, university track programs and personal trainers ( Read more... )