It’s time to revisit your goals for the New YearMarch 01, 2015We're 2 months into the New Year. Seems like a good time to revisit the goals we set on 1/1/15. Here's a look back at a great article by Dena Evans from 2010.
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Call me old school. Or maybe, I’ve been reading too much Michael Pollan. But I have had a hard time getting used to the “food-like” products marketed toward distance runners, marathoners in particular. Whatever happened to old-fashioned energy consumption? That is, what’s wrong with food and drink? Am I the only one who feels this way?
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Ode to the Jogging StrollerJuly 08, 2018This week, I finally gave our double stroller away – my kids now weighing far too much in combination, and having long since passed the time when they found it acceptable to be belted into the stroller and pushed along the bike path or the sidewalk. As I watched it folded up and driven away in someone else’s car for someone else’s kids, I must confess to a bit of nostalgia. Nicole is a self-described “Navy wife” living in Bremerton, Washington, where her husband is a submarine officer. Mom to 16 month old Aiden, Nicole was a teacher before the frequent moves began: “mostly Florida, Ohio, South Carolina, Connecticut to here.” Nicole recently completed the Inaugural Rock ‘n’ Roll Seattle Half Marathon in June while training with Focus-N-Fly. Finishing was the goal, and a time of 2:40:51 provided optimism for future training and shrinking times.
As it happens, Krista ran 3:19:43 for an eleven-minute personal best at Boston on April 21, then married Dale on May 1st. Just now returning to running and with Dale within earshot, she admits, only partially joking, “The wedding was planned around the marathon schedule – Boston is only once a year, but you can get married anytime.” Karen was born and raised near the beach in the Los Angeles area, and graduated from Stanford, class of 1985. While she was on the Farm, Karen majored in Industrial Engineering, and played on the Softball team and in the band. She settled in the area right after school, and continues to live in Palo Alto with her husband and two kids, ages eight and six. Karen spends her days working in marketing at Google. She enjoys being outdoors, traveling, and obviously, running- Karen has completed 45 marathons, most recently the Paris Marathon on April 5th, 2009. The oldest of six siblings, John was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, originally heading west to attend Santa Clara University. Enrolling with a scholarship for athletic training, he retains the ability to tape an ankle in approximately 18 seconds. John attended law school just up the road at University of San Francisco, following a two-year stint at a Jesuit-run community outreach program in Seattle. His career as an attorney has taken him through a variety of in-house counsel and corporate roles, and he presently serves as Managing Director of Silicon Prairie Partners, a venture fund based in Palo Alto. John has four kids, aged 17-30. Recently turned 56, he freely admits to exulting in an age group win at a local trail race despite finding out later that only one other person his age had entered. Tina hails from Amesbury, a small town in England near Salisbury and Stonehenge. From an all-girls high school, she went on to St. Hilda’s College at University of Oxford, where she studied metallurgy and material science. After graduation, she got into programming, and eventually came to the United States in 1985. Tina now works for Wells Fargo in San Francisco, in a division that manages small business credit. She’s married to a husband who runs, and enjoys hanging out on Ocean Beach with her English chocolate Lab, who doesn’t. On Superbowl Sunday, she used her home field advantage well, finishing the Kaiser Half-Marathon in 1:32:45, her fastest Half in seven years and quick enough for fifth place age group honors. Tom lives outside of Boston in Belmont, Massachusetts, where he writes computer programs that pick stocks for a money management firm. Because his company did well enough relative to the market in 2008, he remains in good enough humor to serve as our January 2009 Athlete in Focus. Tom grew up in nearby Storrs, Connecticut before moving on to Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York and then Harvard for graduate school in Computer Science. He has two kids, aged 16 and 13, and is engaged to be married this February. Tom also holds the distinction of beating Tom McGlynn in a race (Philadelphia Marathon 2006), when he set his personal best of 3:21.
Helen Kao is Assistant Professor of Medicine in Geriatrics at UC San Francisco Medical |
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Krista (Limbo) Davis grew up in Boston, where she ran track through high school, but always with obstacles – hurdles, a high jump bar - never just straight ahead and not over long distances if she could help it. From Boston, she went out to Colorado for college and the life of a ski bum for six years, competing as a sponsored snowboarder in the X-Cross and Half Pipe. Krista moved to California because her family was out that way and she was sick of snow. As she tells it, her second to last weekend in Colorado it snowed 30 inches on Mother’s Day and she thought, “You know what, I ‘m done. “ Krista met her husband Dale in San Diego, and his brother provided the encouragement to begin running marathons.