Last year I heard about a challenge for Orange County races and hoped to go for it this year. One of the required races is this annual beauty in Laguna Hills. One thing I should have realized from the name of the city is that this Half Marathon would include a bunch of hills. The race started at the old mall near “the 5” (Californian Jargon for Interstate...
For the second time, I have now attended the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. I was looking forward to going back as I now had some expectations of how the event worked and how to have a good time. For the most part, I was there for the music. I really appreciate the art and like to enjoy the feelings and emotions that are evoked. This year still had some...
It’s EDC week in Las Vegas and while we have already arrived in town we decided to do a day trip to walk on the skywalk glass bridge loop at the Grand Canyon. It is about a 2-hour drive from Vegas and worth seeing at least once. While it is not as much fun as the south rim in the national park, this Hualapai/Hopi/Mojavi Native American reservation does have...
I’ve been wanting to run a race in SD for a few years so last year as I was planning out my 2019 I found this little gem. At 45$ it was one of the more affordable options. It also happened on a Saturday so it was much easier to schedule. At the start, I enjoyed a nice sunrise, but it was really cold outside. The course followed the outline of Mission Bay and...
I am not sure what I was thinking last November as I filled half this year with 6+ races. It has only been 2 weeks since my last big run and now I am doing another one. In a month…off to San Diego for another! I’ll give you this. This race was perfect for running. The weather was great, the course was fun and interesting, and the temperatures behaved...
One of my friends is enjoying a retirement lifestyle in Arizona, attending multiple spring training baseball games….living the dream. I noticed that my favorite team, the Cleveland Indians, would be playing my next favorite team, the LA Dodgers. We decided to take a road trip to Glendale and enjoy a game. Here are a few photos…. I also had a little...
Here we go with another run. I did this event last year and wanted to do it again. Once again, it was a rainy Saturday which had me a little nervous about running. So at 7AM the next day I lined up and lucked out with partly cloudy skies. It was a little bit cold, but I’ve survived worse. The first mile always features a nice run through the historic military...
Just a short post today. Wanted to share that I got to see the Endeavor space shuttle at the California Science Center near USC. I was vaguely reminded of my 12-year-old-self’s family vacation to Cape Canaveral, FL.
Enjoy…
Here is a time lapse of the 2012 arrival of the shuttle and its tour of LA.
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“Do you want to go to San Diego in a few weeks for a 5k?”, my girlfriend asked. At first, I didn’t want to. Here I am, Mr. Half Marathon par excellence, a 5k is the distance I use for my short training runs during the week. But, I swallowed my pride and looked up the event. Turns out there was a 10k distance too. Now we’re talking! (By the...
My sweetheart had once told me a story of a common road trip her family would take every so often. There is a town a few hours north of Los Angeles called Solvang. It is one of the largest Danish-themed towns in the USA. After hearing her stories, I wanted to see it for myself. So we took off one fine Saturday Morning and headed north. After a few hours of...