It is late December. If I go out for my morning run early enough, there just might be a glimpse of frost on the sand. Today I am lucky. For this taper, I prefer runs by the sea, choosing a course that is flat and fast: perhaps along the stretch by the Great Highway. ...
Am I ready for Disney? I honestly have no idea but i do know that I am a lot closer than I used to be. One of the many things that I love about running is how you can teach your body to do things that you never dreamed it was capable of doing and...
Friday I was to run 9 and run 9 I did but despite headphones, shorter intervals, or even making the intervals slow and the rests fast, I would find myself lost in thought before the Garmin beep summoned me to the next lap. What was I doing? Ah yes, running fast. But that isn’t how...
I had originally envisioned my Half Moon Bay Half as graduation day of Phase 1 of the Donna Schumacher Goofy Challenge Training Plan, testing out the train less-but-fast philosophy which I did and I was. ~ So there! It was such a “pretty” race, what with a route along the cliffs above the Pacific...
Take sixteen weeks of the FIRST Marathon Training Plan, add three national holidays, spice with one marathon, one half marathon and one 10k, fold over twenty eight weeks of the Official Disney Goofy Race and a Half Challenge Training Program, marinate in two running buddy schedules and VOILA! the Donna Schumacher’s Goofy Challenge Training Plan!!...
Once upon a time, I eagerly showed up at my running club for the Disney raffle, hoping for a pink T-shirt with the word “princess” written in rhinestones across the front. Instead, I came home with an entry ticket to the Goofy Challenge, a half marathon followed by a marathon, back to back with only...
The elegance of Taraneh Hemami’s window installation for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is translation of an often contentious season of contemporary politics into a dazzling and contemplative work. Entitled FREE, the enormous radiating star of laser cut pattern overtakes the façade of the museum window with an ebullient celebration of Arab Spring. ...
Will I be a dental floss tycoon???? Mmmmm Montana: My Missoula Marathon seemed to have it all, making it a first to remember. big blue sky gentle green grass hills sunlight sparkling on the rushing river waters honey colored horses back lit by the sun waiting as we crested the hill a zig zag...
# 1 PEOPLE WILL GIVE MONEY TO SUPPORT A CHARITY YOU LOVE In my case, that would be Ecodana and a grassroots Agarwood plantation in Borneo. Hint HInt. Somewhere along the way, a tradition developed that allows endurance athletes to solicit donations for worthy causes under the umbrella of their upcoming race. I like it. ...
Whatever else you might want to say about former President Clinton, he did know what to do with a well endowed military (wink wink). His decision to transfer large portions of Army land to the National Park Service gave San Francisco access to an incredible stretch of land with a drop dead iconic view...
In a state of acute post Avenue-of-the-Giant-Half afterglow, I went in search of an ocean in which to stick my feet, an ocean for walking in the freezing cold water, with waves up to my knees, maybe higher to make up for my PR sins. (My chiropractor had warned me in no uncertain terms~ no...
Everything is bigger in America, right?: bigger cars, bigger bellies and bigger pocket books! Well, no not really but the Avenue of the Giants truly IS one of the validations to the myth: one of the American Icons of Big~ only this time we mean it. If you wanted to, you could sit...
