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I’m putting all training details over on WeEndure, but a race is worth noting. Emerald Nuts Across the Bay 12k was this morning. I didn’t spend more than a few strides enjoying the morning view on the Golden Gate Bridge, but the weather was pretty nice and the race felt good: 47:39. I last ran [...]

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I don’t know if the rest of the country celebrates the arrival of Super Bowl Sunday with a running race. But San Francisco does, with the half-marathon and 5K race in Golden Gate Park. Once again yesterday, I chose the shorter distance. Actually, I never even considered going 13.1 miles. Age brings wisdom? The 5K [...]

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Been a light training period since racing three weeks ago, so I was tentative going into this morning’s Christmas Classic races, another 1 mile race followed by a 5K a half hour later. Both races are in Golden Gate Park. The mile is blessedly downhill most of the way — just a gentle slope up [...]

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Three days after running 5K in 19:22, I put in an 18:57 at Run Wild. According to the official results, 29th place overall, 7th in the M30-39 age group, with a 6:07 minutes/mile pace. I’d have to drop 90 seconds to get to top three in the age group. Not gonna happen. The dinosaur T-shirt [...]

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On Thanksgiving morning, I started by being thankful that Golden Gate Park is home to so many road races, including the 2006 Run for the Hungry. I entered both the mile, run at 8am, and the 5K, run 30 minutes later. I am running the Academy of Sciences race later this morning, again doing the [...]

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I was sore yesterday, and I’m sore now, and we’ll see about tomorrow, but yesterday morning’s triathlon went well. The Santa Cruz Sentinel Triathlon is an Olympic distance race, which means it’s officially a 1.5K swim, 40K bike, and 10K run. Update: The organizers sent an apologetic email after the fact letting all racers know [...]

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Yes, there is a 10K run, too. But I’m happy to get out and earn my Gary Larsen long-sleeved T-shirt at half the distance right now. Turned in an 18:53, for a 6:04 pace, which puts me 34th overall for the 5K, 28th male, and 7th male in the 30-39 age group. Official results came [...]

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The weather was perfect, and the race — especially after the swim — went well. Official time of 2:52:45, so faster than I hoped, putting me in 181st place among the 1,129 amateurs. 2009 update: the Accenture links are broken, sadly. Accenture was the title sponsor of Escape from Alcatraz for 2005. As a result, [...]

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On Sunday, I earned my long-sleeved Gary Larsen T-shirt by running the annual Run to the Far Side road race in Golden Gate Park. Brisk, even chilly, for San Francisco, but no rain and the course runs three blocks from home, so the family came out to yell at/for me as I went by. This [...]

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