Thursday, November 30, 2017

Race Report: Mt. Tam 30k




Entered a fun 30k trail run with Inside Trail Racing with Sam.  The plan worked out beautifully as Seth rented a house at Stinson Beach for Julie's 40th Birthday.  The race also starts at Stinson, so I carpooled with Sam to the start, we hung out at the beach, and Kimbo brought the fam to the beach.  Sam and I ran together for the whole race and we came in 4th and 5th.  The first 3 guys were in their 20s and 50s, so we won our age groups (me = 30s, and Sam = 40s).  Wundabar!  The trail was really scenic and in great condition.  A perfect day on the trails.  The day turned out really nice, and the kids had a great time.  Didn't take too many pic at the beach.  Was busy resting... 

Sam's support van.
The post run recovery drink
results:
https://app.lap.io/event/2017-mt-tam/results?category=RACE-30K


Check out this trip that Tyler (the winner) got to do in Nepal!  I'd love to go back there. 

You know what is scary is that... the winner Tyler is a really good runner... but not a really, really good runner.  Just goes to show that people are amazing, and the top is very far off. 

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Yosemite: Running up Half Dome and Clouds Rest

"I run because it always takes me where I want to go." - Dean Karnanzas



Had another amazing trip to my favorite place.  Yosemite!  Sam, Rob, Seth and I were very keen on getting a trail run in, so we booked up a campsite a few months ago and made a great weekend out of it.  


We went on a run/ride from camp to Mirror Lake on Day 1.  





Cool rays egh?  

See those spider web type things?  We couldn't figure it out, but we saw it all day when the sun was behind something like this... really cool.  



Nikko ready to boulder!










Next morning... we got an early start...
We wanted sunrise on top of half dome.  There were 2 guys ahead of us.


















Ice on Clouds rest.












Afterwards, we hung out at Swinging Bridge.  Amazing how much the sun affects the temps.  Back at camp, we were all wearing down jackets... and now... shorts.  
100k!



Stopped at a nice Vietnamese place on the way home.  mmmm

It's been a while... so I figure I can post this.  Crazy folks from the top of Half Dome: