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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