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2023 Happy Holidays!!
It’s been an exciting year for us! Navin is enjoying his junior year at UCSB. He challenged himself with 3 statistics classes last quarter, while having fun with intramural basketball and soccer. He’s looking for a data science summer internship. Let us know if you have any leads for Navi
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Sydney Marathon - Strutting in Sandals
It's a bit of a long story how my wife and I ended up down under, but coincidentally Sydney Marathon (candidate race for the Abbott World Marathon Majors) turned out to be at the very tail end of our trip! 👀🤷🏽♂️I had a decent amount of running leading up to it, including a few 20-milers, but it w
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Notes on an Extended 4-day, Water-Only Fast
My mom's been diabetic since her late 40's/early 50's so my whole running and diet (vegan/pescatarian) journey, in a small way, has been motivated by "running" from the inevitable - assuming it's all genetic. While 12+ years of distance running certainly got my health in a lot better place, I've
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2023 Boston Marathon: Race Day!
Sunday, the night before the Boston Marathon, I was getting so amped up with all the 'good luck' texts, I had to turn on do-not-disturb at 7pm just so I can quiet down. Night before races are already super hard and Boston Marathon was no exception. I had trained a lot harder for the qualifier and
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2023 Boston Marathon: Pre-Race Vibes
I got to Boston on Wednesday before race-day, to hang out with my 21yo and reconnect with friends that I hadn't seen in decades. The weather was unusually warm for April, in the mid-80's, but supposedly cooling down on race day. 🤞🏽When I qualified for the marathon, I was so fixated on the quali
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Wildflowers along a sweep of Diablo 50K
I got to sweep the first half of Brazen Racing's Mt. Diablo 50K and then pick up some additional miles to head back to the finish line. These are the various species I met along the way. Until recently, I've never paid this much attention to the surroundings, but there's so much serpentine rock
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BQ at the Jack & Jill Downhill Marathon
After running 50 ultras for 50 last year, I stayed in the run-without-goals mode for a while, until in April I saw a few Strava friends running the Boston Marathon. This had always been on my list of things to get to, but with my older son graduating from a school near Boston in 2023, there was
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Firebagging - Trail Running meets Citizen Science
During the numerous runs in 2021 for my 50 Ultra Marathons for 50 project, 1. I covered a lot of unique ground and 2. Spent time learning about the lands I was exploring and 3. had time to reflect on many things :) I kept getting to remote corners of the San Francisco Bay Area and was running
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2021 Ultra #40 - The Foliage Tour 50K
My wife and I had planned a trip out to Boston for my older son's parents weekend and got to make a week out of it to explore Adriondacks and to drive through the foliage in Vermont. We stayed in Lake Placid for a couple of nights and I managed to sneak in ultra #40 on one of the days. While it
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2021 Ultra #38 - The Olemian Rhapsody 50K
I've been incredibly lucky so far (after 37 ultras this year!) without a run going side ways. Yeah, there were some ankle twists and other minor injuries, but I suppose it was finally my time. I wanted to run an out and back along the Bolinas Ridge from Olema all the way to Pantol station (Marin
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2021 Ultra #35 - The Foggy Bottom 50K
Another coastal route, but net new trails that I haven't explored before. My wife and I have walked our dog around here, but little did I know, the trails extend both sides of Poplar Beach (Half Moon Bay) for many miles. This one definitely had plenty of site seeing with stretches of high bluffs,
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2021 Ultra #34 - The PG 34
Another coastal route that I had saved for a warm day or a low AGI day. Also, this was to give my ankle a break from the last, gnarly vertical run. I have to admit, I didn't want to roll out of bed when the alarm went off at 4:30am. Dragged myself out and made the hour and a half drive to the
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2021 Ultra #33 - The Ouchie Wah Wah 50K
After a couple of fairly flat runs, decided to add more vertical (and trails) back into the mix. Plus I hadn't been to San Pedro Valley Park to run on Montara Mountain all this year. This course was basically three laps across all the trails that the park has to offer. With the Dixie Fire and the
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2021 Ultra #32 - The SF Crosstown Trail Ultra
My wife (adventure buddy!) discovered the SF Crosstown Trail and we spent a couple of days hiking most of it for our anniversary. Well, a route like that, it's only "logical" (!!!) to make an ultra out of it. From Land's End to Candlestick Park (and back), the 34-mile out and back route traverses
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2021 Ultra #29 - The Minimalist 50K
After #26 The Shinrin Yoku 50K took a week or so off to help heal, recover and strengthen my ankle before commencing the next set of ultras. Ran #27 The Neighborhood 50K and then #28 Dawn Patrol 50K staying on flats to carefully resume the progress towards the 50 ultras this year. Yesterday, just
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2021 Ultra #26 - The Shinrin Yoku 50K
I was tentatively planning an ultra in Yosemite this weekend, but with temperatures hitting 100+ degrees near Hetch Hetchy + the fire danger while being out in the wilderness, hmmm. So change of plans, decided to run in Woodside on the classic route of starting at Huddart Park, then along Skyline
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2021 Ultra #25 - Cruise to Cruz 50K
With Big Basin trails largely closed because of the fire last season, Skyline to Sea, as one of the ultra routes this year, is not an option. I've been looking for other ways to do an ultra that ends in Santa Cruz and super happy with this route. Starting from Los Gatos, this largely follows low
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