Mt. Disappointment Test Runs #2 & #3
I’d run the Mt. Disappointment training run a few weeks back, crashed at about the 3 mile mark, and did the rest in pain. I decided to have another go at it. Not knowing what she was getting into, Kista joined me. The climb up back up Mt. Wilson on Kenyon Devore trail was more [...]
Henninger Flats & Mount Luken
Sun, fog, hot, cold, inquisitive deer, snarling bobcats, 2 mountains, 7,300′ of climbing. Saturday I decided to try a heat & sun training run, 3,700 feet up Mt. Lukens at high noon on a hot, sunny day. The two other times I’ve run this, it was in the morning, in fog, and cold. Those runs [...]
Round and round and round
The original plan was to run 24 miles, but what’s another 2, to squeeze in an impromptu marathon at years’ end? 12 laps around the reservoir. 26.22 miles. You wouldn’t think it would be an interesting run, but it was. I was out there longer than anyone, I think, and I got to see the [...]
Riverside Drive
Sunday. Still tired from yesterday’s dehydrating midday heat wave hill run through Griffith Park, today was a somewhat plodding 12.5 miler out my door, down the hill, Allesandro to Riverside to Fletcher, LA River bike path to the end and then some, back through Griffith Park and Riverside, with an official end at the bottom [...]
Crack or Cactus Gardens?
He says he has three days clean. His eyes are rolling around in desperation; they look like they’re gonna bust out of their sockets. His entire body is tight but his jaw is tightest. He’s grinding his teeth, grimacing, jerking and twitching, and I’m not so sure he’s being honest about those three days. He [...]
Morning Buddha
Wednesday, May 5, 8am. Mile 1.72 of an 8 mile run through Griffith Park. These days I’m paying attention to form – trying to find that spot where my cadence is what I want it to be, my pace is what I want it to be, my feet are hitting the ground in line with [...]
