We did it!! Running the 2010 Nike Women’s marathon was an incredible experience. Luckily we found out at the last minute that if you did the early start (5:30am as we had planned), you would be prevented from running any faster than a 17 minute mile!! They had policemen on motorcyles that wouldn’t let you …
Hard to believe that the marathon weekend is finally here! Many many thanks to everyone who helped me reach my goal – I ended up raising $3350 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The support from everyone has been amazing, and LLS is just such an awesome organization. Last night I met my fellow TNT …
We had our longest run – 20 miles in San Francisco on Saturday September 11th. It was an absolutely gorgeous day, and we met bright and early across from the Beach Chalet at Ocean Beach. My 5 minute run 1 minute walk running buddy (Ted!) was nowhere to be seen, and I was preparing myself …
Many thanks to everyone who has very generously donated through my page to support the Leukemia and Lymphoma society. I am very excited to have raised 86% of my goal of $3000! If anyone else would like to help me reach my goal, my donation page is here. Over the next few weeks I’ll be …
The Nike Marathon does have its fair share of hills (this is San Francisco!) Our run on Saturday Jul 31st at the Stanford Dish was a great way to get a feel for what hills feel like. Given there was significant elevation gain, I decided to just go with 12 miles again. This run was …
On Saturday July 17th we ran 12 miles out at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay. This was a beautiful run- was great to run along the coast and the weather was wonderfully cool. This time we didn’t go out with set run/walk intervals – we were running for a while and walking when …
On Saturday we ran at Seal Point Park in San Mateo. Before we started our run one of our honorees who has Myeloma talked about his experience with this illness and the 3 bone marrow transplants he has had. There is currently no cure for Myeloma – listening to this is a big reminder as …
Yesterday’s run was 8 miles at Bayland’s in Palo Alto. The run is right along the bay. A great thing about running in a group is that you almost forget you are running as you talk with your fellow runners. There was a group of 5 of us running at a similar pace doing a …
One of the best places to run nearby is at Sawyer’s Camp trail (right on the San Andreas fault) at Crystal Springs. It is beautiful, has mile markers (even half mile markers!), bathrooms, and is 6 miles long so you can easily do a 12 mile run. I used to run there last year while …
I definitely don’t want to go through a painful IT band again, and it appears that foam rollers are one way to help prevent such running injuries. At my first personal training session my trainer introduced me to these rollers – she showed me how to use them and it didn’t look so bad. It’s …
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