Click to view

Time to talk about times, my friends. I dug up all of my past marathon and half-marathon times, just for you. OK, for me. OK, for all of us (but mostly for me).

Nike Full 2006: 7:04:56
Nike Half 2007: 3:39:16
Avenue 2007: 3:29:53
SJ Rock n Roll Half 2008: 3:02:56
US Half 2008: 3:05:10
Nike Full 2009: 6:58:52
What does this mean for my upcoming races ( Read more... )

Training: Cuttings Wharf Road, Napa
Miles: 12
Time: 3:00
Song: ummmm, must have been too tired to sing

Well, I was gonna write about the training and the hysterical Girl Scouts they brought out this time to man the water-stop, but I've been distracted by yet another stupid video some idiot posted on the web. What can I say, it's a country song about ( Read more... )

Training: Windsor to Healdsburg (and back) via Starr and Los Amigos roads
Miles: 10
Time: 2:30
Song: "Halfway Gone" by Lifehouse (heh, it's not my fault it's on the radio 24/7 and I can't get it outta my head)

Well, the good news is that I managing to keep a 15 min/mile pace through my longer trainings. This means I might actually have a shot at ( Read more... )

Training: Petaluma (downtown to the middle of nowhere ( Read more... )

Training: Joe Rodota Trail (yet again!)
Miles: 6.5
Time: 1:45
Song: Music is a no-no with TNT, but Paolo Nutini's "New Shoes" was in my head.

Trained with the Team on Saturday morning. It was good. I managed to find a walker with the same pace as myself which is an extremely rare thing - outside of races with more than 10,000. So we cruised along at a ( Read more... )

OK, OK, so I've skipped a couple of weeks. I a-pol-o-gize. But it's not like I've stopped training while away from my journal. Last weekend I traveled to lovely Point Reyes for my first official Team in Training event of the season. As you can imagine, there's was much purple and perkiness. Unfortunately, those now in charge of creating the TNT ( Read more... )

Training: Joe Rodota Trail, between Sebastopol and SR
Miles: About 5.5
Time: 1.5 hours
Course: FLAAAAAAT
Song: "Hammer to Fall" by Queen

Just finished up my first (serious) training of the season. Hoorah for me! I've been pretty regularly going at it on the elliptical machine at the gym, but walking in the real world is way different. It lets me ( Read more... )