I’ve just returned home from my second Thanksgiving run–just a short one, and mostly just an excuse to use my new headlamp, which is on loan from Dougie. (Last week, in Tucson, it enabled us to see my first live rattlesnake, which was slightly disconcerting.) I am pretty obsessed with the headlamp, and with the [...]
24 November 08:Iron-Spectating and more…
The last ten days have been nuts! I’ve been from Vegas, to Cabo San Lucas, back to Vegas, then back home to Tucson for a couple days, then to Tempe for iron-weekend, back to Tucson, and now I am home with my family in Palos Verdes (California). I would be remiss not to follow up [...]
14 November 08: Surprise Weekend
After two weeks very, very easy following Kona, and then another two weeks easy (getting moving again), this week I have gotten down to business a bit. Cliff instructed us to be in off-season mode until this week, so as soon as I returned home from Boston on Monday, I felt free to begin the [...]
8 November 08: Family reunion in Cambridge!
This weekend I’m in Cambridge for my annual Harvard visit. My little sister, Cameron, is in her final year of law school here. Luckily for me, Cameron has done the honors for the family. Although we eventually succeeded in turning my dad into a (USC) big Trojan fan, my parents were more than a little disappointed when I opted for [...]
2 November 08: Home Sweet Home
After a weekend in Vegas with friends last weekend, I was ready to be done with my two weeks of full-on “off season.” I am just not cut out for that lifestyle! This week I have been back in Tucson, doing a little bit of training that bears some resemblance to proper workouts, while actually [...]
