Tag: running
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Celebrating
This weekend marked the 16th annual El Prieto Handicap – Chuck’s annual race. It’s a very neat event, held in the San Gabriel Mountains in an area called Oak Grove Park. Two miles of the race is on a single track trail called El Prieto (hence the race name), and every year the direction alternates:…
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Run-around Chuck
Time flies when you’re getting your life back to some semblance of normal. It’s been six weeks (!!) since Chuck’s last chemo treatment and he has actual hair growing (versus chia fuzz) on his head and his beard is also returning. His energy is returning and his taste buds are starting to work. The hardest…
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El Prieto 2008 or how I nearly shattered my kneecap, broke my ankle, killed my iPod and cut off my finger in one day
Greetings! It was quite a weekend, this weekend just past. Actually, it was just a hell of a day. It started early with the 15th annual running of Chuck’s El Prieto Handicap. This was a downhill year, which means a good part of the course (a lot of which was single track trail) was, well,…
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Another day, another race
It’s beginning to feel like all we do is run. We’re either doing it for work-related reasons, or we’re running actual races somewhere. Last weekend it was for the Santa Barbara Wine Country Half, this weekend it was Chuck’s annual El Prieto Handicap. Every year he reverses the direction, so this was an uphill year.…
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Born to run
Wonder what sort of romantic activity we get up to on Saturday nights? Well, this past Saturday night we hit the streets of L.A. for the Nike Run Hit Wonder 5K/10K race. The race started on Exposition Boulevard, right between the Exposition Park Rose Garden and USC. The course ran down Figueroa to Venice, then…
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