It all started months ago when a guy in my race club announced an interest in getting some teams together to run The Relay – a 200 mile relay race that starts in Calistoga and ends in Davenport.  It used to end in Santa Cruz which was far more recognizable but the city of Santa [...]

I think I wrote fairly often about how anxious I was about this race and how apprehensive I was about it.  As the week leading to the race drew near I went through every emotional state possible  and I felt hopeful, fearful, dread, excited and just plain anxious.  It was kind of a relief to [...]

Pre-race is a condition that is lasting far too long. It’s kind of like being pregnant. As your due date looms thoughts of just getting it over with increase. At least races always happen on their due dates which is more than can be said for the arrival of a baby. Anyhow – I still [...]

Greetings Sports Fans!  I’ve gone from performance anxiety to race ready and that is a welcomed thing, indeed.  How did Iget there? First of all, I know how to make use of a neglected weight bench.  I turned it into a bike stand so I could clean my bike to a state of race ready [...]

    I think we’re all familiar with this phenomenon.  You want it.  You want it bad.  And you want it to be good.  You want it to be really good.  You want it to make you quiver with vitality and fullness and with the promise of reaching heights you’ve never reached before.  You’re pretty sure [...]

I am sick with a cold.  A really nasty one. Maybe it is the flu but I don’t have any body aches so I don’t think so.  There are 2 things I can’t stop doing – blowing my nose and eating.  This is what my trash bin looks like right now:   I bought a [...]

Oh well – I did not have a 5K PR in the couples relay but I did have a great time! I rode a really hard ride on Saturday along with a bunch of people from Forward Motion Race Club and with a match.com guy I had had one other date with.  He’s nice but [...]

There are a couple of truisms when it comes to racing. Don’t go out too fast …. and It’s all about the shirt. This weekend’s 20 miler gave me an opportunity to be reminded of both – one in a good way and one, not so much. The race was the Clarksburg Country Run featuring [...]

We interrupt our regular feature, Hump Day Miscellany, to bring you news of a new movie that you need to purchase on DVD to see. The movie is called Volcanic Spirit and tells the story of one of the most grueling races in the world. It isn’t sexy and famous like Badwater or the Western [...]

This will be a race report mostly in pictures because we all know about the ratio of value between pictures and words. The plan was for 2 of my friends from Forward Motion to arrive at Chez Moi at 4:30 so that we could head into the city and park out near the finish and [...]