Beneath the Bay Bridge

Fatigue is a fun­ny thing. Some­times it’s hard to tell when I am actu­al­ly fatigued and when I sim­ply think I ought to be fatigued.…

Down the Kansas Street steps

It’s fun­ny — and kind of a shame — how see­ing a «dead end» sign will dis­cour­age me from using a street even when I’m on foot. I say…

First race of 2010

It was a gor­geous day here in San Fran­cis­co. 70 degrees and only a few wispy clouds. A per­fect day for my return to organized…

Walk to the races

I’ve com­bined two walks here, one to the start of the DSE Run­ners Mis­sion Bay 5K today and the oth­er back home. I was­n’t quite…

Barefoot in the street

This was my first bare­foot run on pave­ment. I went only a lit­tle over a mile so as not to avoid what I’ve read is…

An ill-advised loop

Greg LeMond famous­ly said, «there’s no such thing as over­train­ing, but there is such a thing as inad­e­quate rest.» Appar­ent­ly I haven’t got­ten ade­quate rest. Ouch.…