I spent most of my day at the San Fran­cisco Marathon yes­ter­day. After I dropped off my mother, father, sis­ter, and her boyfriend at the start­ing line, I headed to the 1 mile mark and watched the elite run­ners speed by. At first I felt a lit­tle sad that I wasn’t going to be running […]

My 3-year-old daugh­ter was run­ning the length of the house this after­noon. You should have seen the huge smile she had on her face. She was hav­ing so much fun prac­tic­ing new forms – kick­ing her heels up high behind her, leap­ing for­ward in large strides, skip­ping. It reminded me how run­ning is one of […]

My wife dis­cov­ered this recipe in the New York Times a few years back. She gave the recipe a try and we all loved it. I found all of the taste qual­i­ties I desire in a soup to be present and deemed it a ten out of ten. It has become a sta­ple in our […]

This blog is work­ing out well for me. I enjoy how it pro­vides me with an out­let to write – some­thing I am re-realizing I quite enjoy – gives me some­thing to design and craft myself, and lets me log my learn­ings and thoughts about run­ning and life in a cen­tral loca­tion. It is becoming […]

In the lat­est edi­tion of Runner’s World, August 2009, there is an inter­view with Sarah Palin. In the inter­view, Sarah says that she notices her days don’t go as well when she doesn’t run. I have some advice for you, Sarah Palin: “Run more. A lot more. I want to see more run­ning the roads […]

I was at the park the other day with my two daugh­ters. As I hob­bled back from throw­ing some­thing away in the trash can, my 7-year-old exclaimed, “You take for­ever!” I responded, “Yeah, I know.” I then thought out loud, “I won­der how long it will be before I can run faster than you again.” […]