Last time I ran Quicksilver 100K and/or the 100K distance was 10 years ago, where I finished in 14:17 without a whole lot of focused training with vert/distance. Was hoping for a stronger run this year and the training definitely … Continue reading
Mt. Diablo is one of those Bay Area peaks that’s ever looming over the horizon. I ran my very first trail half marathon here back in 2012 and since then, been in love with this mountain, even camped out there … Continue reading
I’m writing this blog aboard a Shinkansen heading to Hiroshima with my wife Kammy. Niles, our older son, and I ran our 2nd Abbotts marathon at Tokyo (first one was at Chicago in 2024) yesterday. Still a little sore, but … Continue reading
My older son Niles, and I are running the Tokyo Marathon this Sunday. We got here a week prior (with my wife) to get over the jet-lag and also explore Tokyo a bit. We are staying at a Ryokan in … Continue reading
These days it looks like I’m mostly following where my sons live/work/study to run marathons! My older son Niles started working in Chicago last year after graduation. When I looked into potentially running Chicago Marathon, I was pleasantly surprised that … Continue reading
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! … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
In the last 10 years, I’ve run 91 ultra marathons (50K or longer) and 11 official marathons 😳, during which speed was a nice side-effect, never the goal. And yet, when I finally attempted in earnest to BQ (which I … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading