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• Elliptical Reasoning

  

  You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse. – Jon Gruden, football coach-turned-ESPN analystOne thing that does stay the same: the view fro... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The Day The Sky Fell On Saddleback

  

  Mother Nature doesn’t care if you’re having fun. – Larry NivenThis wasn’t part of the plan.Actually, the steady uphill jog on nice wide dirt trail was the... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2013 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• 2012 by the Number

  

  Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. - Paul BrodeurI love numbers.  As a scientist I genuflect at their altar, and I understand the power of... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• 32 Miles on East Bay Trails (Part II)

  

  Do you know about the trail that links the East Bay Regional Parks?  Have you run it?  If so, what is/are the best section(s)? Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• 32 Miles on East Bay Trails (Part I)

  

  Do you know about the trail that links the East Bay Regional Parks?  Have you run it?  If so, what is/are the best section(s)? Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2012 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• Griffith Park Trail Half Marathon

  In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read.  If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing. - Will Rogers... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• Moab Trail Half Marathon

  

  In between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown. - Rush, “Subdivisions” Few places in the continental U.S. can rival the spectacular vastness and beauty... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2012 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• Rocky Ridge Half Marathon

  Experience: that most brutal of teachers.  But you learn, my God do you learn. - C.S. Lewis (photo courtesy of Brazen Racing) The experience of Rocky Ridge... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2012 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The 35th Chicago Marathon

  Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. - Henry Ford “I predict sub 3 30.” My brother sent his text the week before I’d be running the... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2012 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• Drag-N-Fly Half Marathon

  And all the girlies say I’m pretty fly for a white guy. - The Offspring I’ve fully bought in to the Brazen Racing ethic and crossed my share of their finish... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2012 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• Free Lance: The Curious Case of the U.S. ‘Anti-Data’ Agency

  

  Sports don’t build character, they reveal it. - John Wooden (Image courtesy of www.reuters.com) Lance Armstrong is arguably the greatest endurance athlete... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2012 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• Bear Creek Half Marathon

  

  Just win, baby. - Al Davis, former Oakland Raiders owner Bear Creek… a name that evokes nature’s power! beauty! and grace! in mental images such as: Katmai... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2012 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The Blog Post I Wish I’d Written

  Good artists copy, great artists steal. - Steve Jobs (attributed to and stolen from Pablo Picasso) Without reservation I’ve always thought of myself as a great... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2012 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• These Hills Have “Ayes” (Part II: Trails)

  I know it’s important… I do, I honestly do.  But we talkin’ about practice, man.  What are we talkin’ about?  Practice? - Allen Iverson, breathing new life... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2012 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS