race report
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I ran another half marathon! This is my sixth half marathon (I think, I’m frankly too lazy to check), and was inspired by my last one. That last one was easily the hardest thing I’ve ever done physically, but it was invigorating to finish and realize that I was capable of such a feat. It…
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Back in 2019, I decided to sign up for a trail half marathon to give myself a new challenge. I picked the Tulip Trail Run in Woodburn, Oregon, which was set to be run in late March of 2020. I started training twelve weeks in advance, and dutifully progressed through the training in the cold…
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After we moved to Vancouver, Washington in 2010, we made a point of going back to our home town of San Jose, California as often as we could. When I picked up running in 2016, and actually stuck with it for the first time, I naturally wanted to run a turkey trot in my home…
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For my third quarter 10k (remembering that one of my New Year’s resolutions was to run an organized 10k every quarter), I had to sort of stretch the definition of Q3. We had a lot of travel during the summer, so while I technically should have run this race in July, August, or September, I’m…
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Every year, I like to make New Year’s resolutions. I’m fundamentally a goal-based person – the kind of person who works well off of to-do lists, who will play a game and systematically complete every step and side quest, and who (conversely) tends to lose steam or end up adrift without something long-term to work…
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