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Coyote Backbone Trail Ultra – Pre-race/Taper Thoughts

This Saturday I’ll be participating in the inaugural Coyote Backbone Trail Ultra.  The Backbone Trail stretches 68 miles through the Santa Monica Mountains from Will Rogers State Park in Pacific Palisades up north and west to Point Mugu State Park in Malibu.  The backbone trail is a faint green line running through the middle of the…

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LA Marathon – Team Pablove

Today was the 2013 LA Marathon. Last night I had the privilege of speaking at the Team Pablove pre-race dinner.  The Team Pablove runners raised over $66,000 this year to help Pablove in their fight against childhood cancer.  Some of them, including the other guy who spoke last night, have some very personal and heart-breaking stories about their involvement…

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Two Skecher Family

Elizabeth has joined the Skechers revolution 🙂 Her GOrun 2‘s are the smaller ones above on the right, mine are on the left. It might be hard to tell from the pictures, but the women’s version of this colorway is “pink and green” while the men’s is “red and lime” (which is actually more like…

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Monthly Summary – February 2013

In February, I raced the Bandit 50k in Simi Valley, my first race since the Bear last September.  As I wrote in my race report, I’m happy with how the race went and learned some lessons that I can hopefully carry into the rest of 2013.  In the above picture, I’m just finishing the “jump” I…

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Bandit Ultra Trail Run 50k – Race Report

Let me start by making an incredibly obvious statement: Running 31 miles is hard, especially when there’s 6,500 feet of net elevation gain.  It’s a different kind of “hard” than 50 miles hard or 100 miles hard or even road marathon hard, but it’s still really hard.  And after not racing a 50k since September…

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Shoe Review: Skechers GOrun 2

I haven’t been very secretive about my affinity with Skechers’ running shoes.  I liked the original GOrun and have really been enjoying the newer GOtrail (I have over 240 miles on my first pair and 40 miles on a second pair that I’m rotating in).  And although so far this year, I’ve run over 90% of my miles…

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Monthly Summary – January 2013

Notwithstanding the fact that in the first mile of this morning’s 13 mile run at Los Liones, I rolled my ankle and then a couple minutes later took a nice spill, January was a really good month of training and a great way to kick off 2013. The highlight of the month was my run…

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SoCal Winter Running

I had a great weekend of running and thankfully I have friends who like to take pictures of our runs.  Here are a bunch of my favorites: Saturday: Mt. Wilson Trail to Observatory, down Toll Road, then crazy-fun “hidden” single track to Mater Dolorosa Retreat Center (16.3 miles; 5,282 feet elevation gain).  Ran with Dom,…

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Jury Duty

I spent the last week doing my civic duty, sitting on a jury at the LA county criminal courthouse. Twelve of us were tasked with deciding whether or not the defendant was guilty of a variety of charges, including attempted murder, assault with a firearm and shooting a firearm at an occupied vehicle.  In the…

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Shoe Review: Skechers GoTrail

In mid-December I bought a pair of the new Skechers GOtrail.  My first impression of the shoes was really positive.  Now that I’ve run nearly 100 miles in the GOtrail, I think it’s a good time to review the shoes in more detail. I’ve been a fan of Skechers running shoes since I got my…

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