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Panic. It was a moment of pure panic. The kind where you don’t know what to do and you just look around the room with wide-open eyeballs trying to find answers in someone else’s eyes. That was quickly replaced by helplessness when the clock was approaching zero seconds and culminated with shock and defeat once time was up. THAT’s what registering for Seawheeze was like in 2017.With credit card…

An Opportunity to Do Good

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This is a story of what happens when you don’t keep a calendar of upcoming races.

Once upon a time, there was a guy who liked to run a lot of local races. He was fortunate enough to live in an area that gave him multiple opportunities to race throughout any given month.

Back in Spring, over the course of a few weeks this runner noticed a local race called the Oaktown Halfthat kept popping up on…

The plan was simple—don’t all great stories begin that way? I knew what I wanted from this race and what to expect from The San Francisco Marathon. At 5am as the sun was thinking about rising, I let @carleemcdot know the game plan: “We’ll keep a 9-minute pace, nothing over a 9:30… and I don’t want to see any 8’s (as in 8:XX/mile).”I let her know that there were 2-3 steep hills in the first half…

8th time is a charm—at least that’s what I’m thinking going into this weekends San Francisco Marathon. This will be the 8th time I run my local marathon (counting my 52.4 in 2014 as 2) and I’m looking forward to it after a 2-year hiatus.

In 2017, I was registered for the 52.4 again (you run the 26.2 twice), but had to DNS because I hurt my back a few weeks prior to race day. This year I’m feeling…

Global Running Day is upon us (Wednesday, June 6, 2018) — which basically means it’s the one day per year that we get to talk about running to all of our friends and they can’t (justifiably) get annoyed by us. One thing runners love to do is talk about running and Global Running Day gives us all the reasons to talk about it MORE.

Here is a fun list of things you can do on Global Running Day.

1. Go…

Some of us run to find a sense of balance in our lives, or as a way to stay healthy and to improve our overall fitness. Some of us choose to run for a cause or a purpose that has touched our lives and those around us. The truth is that many of us choose to lace up our shoes for a combination of reasons—some private, and some public.

This time, members of the running community are coming together…

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In partnership with Jaybird and as an Ambassador for the Mesa-Phoenix Marathon

It was August of 2015—the last time I ran a marathon with headphones. Seems like yesterday that I was making playlists and deciding which songs were going to help push me through 26.2 miles. That particular day it was a compilation of Jay-Z’s library (and likely some Kanye West sprinkled in there).

A month or so ago,…

Running with Brooks in 2018

In partnership with Brooks.

Last year, I was honored to be asked to be a part of the Brooks Run Influencer program. I’ve been a fan of Brooks for years and was excited to officially come in board. Throughout 2017, I was kept up to speed on upcoming products, received gear to do what I do, and was able to attend the Brooks Altitude Camp in New Mexico where I was able to meet the Brooks Beasts,…

What Happened and What’s Happening Next?

Sooo, last time we talked I was training, but not really. Then I hurt myself doing something really difficult (putting a backpack in the car) and instead of running 52.4 miles for charity, I stood outside in the cold to cheer on the runners at the San Francisco Marathon. I feel like we are all caught up. If not, this post may help.

That was back in July and since then I have done some things:

Fin…

What’s the saying? When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. That sounds right. Well, that’s kind of how I felt about the San Francisco Marathon weekend. In case you missed it, I was supposed to be running the SF Marathon Ultra, where you run the course from finish to start, then again from start to finish. But do to a string of injuries, it was in my best interest NOT to run and DNS (did…

What #SportsBraSquad Means To This Guy

You might be asking yourself. But wait, aren’t you a dude? A bro? One of those non-sports-bra-wearing-kind-of-runners? Yep. That’s accurate. For me, the day was about more than that. Strength is not defined by what you wear (or what you don’t). I think we can all agree on that, but before we get into it, let’s talk about how it got started.

The run down

Over the weekend was National Sports Bra…

After two 13.1 mile loops, so much of me wanted to stop. I was tired. I was salty and sweaty. And having to head out for an additional 5 miles did not sound like fun. Mile 26.2 of a 50k sounded like a good stopping point—I’ve done it before. Almost the exact same scenario, cross a finish line only to head out for an additional 5 miles. It was May 22, 2012 and is my only DNF. Such a mind game. It…

Running 20 miles alone is something I rarely look forward to. Sure there is a sense of serenity in taking on a distance in solitude and getting lost in your own mind, but it just sounds so daunting. 20 is a lot.

I’ve written in the past about breaking up long-distance runs into smaller digestible distances (instead of thinking of it as 20, run 5 miles, then 10, then 5) and I put this into…