Remembering a friend and celebrating his life today – 3/1/13

http://www.crowdrise.com/teamherman2013 Today, March 1, 2013, is the anniversary of celebrating Herman’s life, my dear friend who is like a big brother to me.  My sisters and I, together with some friends, continue to run/walk/participate in honor and remembrance of Herman, and to spread awareness of pancreatic cancer.  This year, Raciel (my sister) and I are



Double Dipper: East Bay Race Weekend – 2/23 and 2/24/13

Yes, that title is correct.  It has come to this point where I am crazy enough to race a 50k trail run on Saturday, then a half marathon on Sunday.  To normal people this sounds crazy.  To ultra runners, this is normal (then again, they must all be crazy).  Running a race as part of



Training for week-ending 2/24/13

Monday – TRX boot camp.  The regular instructor was not around, so the substitute provided a different touch to TRX boot camp.  Shauna, the sub instructor, had 6 different stations: (1) TRX suspension, where we do squats and arm pulls (I don’t know the terminology), (2) Lunges with lifts, (3) holding a plank and rocking



Training for week-ending 2/17/13

Once again, I have ended this week on Sunday 2/17, instead of ending the week on Saturday 2/16 (and starting on Sunday 2/10).  This is my training, so I make the rules.  I’m getting lazy writing up paragraphs so here is training this past week: Monday – Pilates mat class 60 minutes. Tuesday – Track



Training for week-ending 2/10/13

I keep on ending my weeks on a Sunday, but on my training calendar, I count Sunday as the first day of the week.  It is just much easier to quantify my mileage by counting 2 consecutive days, Saturday and Sunday on the same week, making Sunday the last day, so I continued to do