I’m in my hometown of Sammamish, WA for a week and a half. Naturally, the weather is cool and rainy. A steady rain fell all day today and temps struggled to get to 50 degrees. Fortunately, I am brining some of the California sunshine as a hot ridge of high pressure is expected to build…
Category: Trail Running
Quicksilver 25K Trail Race!
I ran the Quicksilver 25k this morning at Almaden Quicksilver Park in the hills south of San Jose this morning. The weather and conditions were fantastic and I enjoyed the course, especially the 6 miles of lovely single track winding up, down, and around the hillside. I found a nice rhythm and felt good throughout…
Monte Bello – Skyline Loop
I finally got out to run at Monte Bello Open Space Preserve (OSP) on the east side of Skyline Ridge. I have been wanting to run these trails for quite some time and it was nice to finally explore the area – it did not dissapoint! Looking at the maps, an aesthetic 16.5 mile super…
Wrapping Up
I now have my cap and gown for graduation on Sunday and a nice frame for my diploma, but I also have two boxes worth of review books for the bar review course. Graduation will be sweet, but I will really only feel done after I take and pass the California Bar. I am still…
Big Basin Redwoods 25k!
Wow! As anticipated, Big Basin Redwoods was an amazing place for a trail run – ancient redwoods, spectacular waterfalls, challenging singletrack – another great event by Pacific Coast Trail Runs (PCTR)! Running the 25k distance, I knew the course would be hilly, technical, and rugged (i.e. tough) so I figured 2 hours was a nice…
Big Basin Redwoods Tomorrow
Tomorrow I head out to Big Basin State Park to run amongst old growth Redwoods and see the famous Berry Falls. I’ll be running the 25k at this event put on Pacific Coast Trail Runs (PCTR). It’s a challenging course with rough trails and lots of elevation gain (3,090 ft). It’s warm and sunny here…
Skyline Ridge Half Marathon
I ran a fun half marathon race at Skyline Ridge this morning with Enviro-Sports coming in first place with a time of 1:37:05. Skyline Ridge and Russian Ridge are two of my favorite local parks and was the location of my last trail race, a fantastic 50k with Pacific Coast Trail Runs on March 1st….
Hamms Gulch Hack Job
First of all, congratulations to the Stanford Women’s Basketball Team who upset UConn to reach the title game in the NCAA tournament! Go Cardinal!!! I ran today at Windy Hill Open Space Preserve and the ascent up Razorback Ridge trail was great as usual. However, the descent down Hamms Gulch had an unpleasant surprise. Apparently…
My List of World Famous Hikes
Here is collection of twelve world famous treks outside the United States that I would like to do at some point. Most of them are in the most rugged, mountainous areas on the planet – I like mountains! These trips would be more relaxed, but I imagine they would still be (much) lighter and faster…
Cool Ultra Trails
Here are some sweet ultra trails in wilderness settings in California and Washington State. If I am going to be running as far and long as these trails, the scenery better be spectacular and this list delivers! I don’t think I am ready to run the longer trails on this list, but maybe sometime in…
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