Tamekaloveshoews

This is a pressing question within our running community these days, in the midst of this behemoth pandemic and global health crisis our current generations are facing (I'm not saying it's the biggest, not to compare with so many wars or refugee crisis, but that's one which is "hitting home" around the world). And not just a metaphysical question, we have to make the right choices. I'm not talking about the ongoing debate, is running is good for you or not in absolute. Surely, extreme running might have consequences. And no exercise at all, isn't good either. Some conditions also exclude running because of its pounding for instance. First, a disclaimer, I'm not a doctor. Not even trained in the field of physiology. Worse, I'm probably reading too much, meaning too much uniformed opinions, creating all sort of bias. But since this blog is about running, and my personal experience of it... So here you are with the classic social media disclaimer, all...

I don't recall having heard about the word stir-crazy before Friday, when that was picked as the word of the day for our Amazon Cupertino Toastmaster club meeting (contact me if you want to join our club, we still meet weekly, albeit remotely of course right now). I had heard about cabin fever these past weeks, that was also a new concept to me. Which is ironic because, these past 20 years, nobody told me I must be suffering from these by spending so much time running in the outdoors... This post was meant to be short, a simple virtual race report on a course I ran several times. It was meant to be a happy run, in the parks we love to run in all year round. A run to celebrate one of local ultra runners who has created this course and directed a race on it for 10 years or so, Steve. We were 3 runners, not running together, not just because of staggered starts, but also because you typically run an ultra alone, at your own pace. What could go wrong? Unfortunately, it ended up creati...

Less than 2 weeks after the 50K Road Nationals on Long Island and already writing about another National Championship, gasp! Short of being back to serious training with this 16-month hamstring nagging injury, maybe these races can be seen as some training. Besides, and I want to do a separate post about it for other reasons, I ran a solo 50K last week, back on Black Mountain. With that, I know some of you must not believe much of my injury complaints but I assure you I'm running at 75 to 85% capacity, with some pain on every left stride. Mild physical pain that is, compared to the pain of not running for 8 months without much healing. With that, I decided to give this season another try, then fly to France for 4 weeks right after the race to get a special shockwave therapy treatment over 4 weeks there. Well, that was the plan before the COVID-19 pandemic. So long for a hope to accelerate the healing... Anyway, back to the joy of running, I was stocked to have the opportunity to r...

2 weeks have passed already, not much of a scoop in the result in the age of instant posting, but better get this race report out this Friday night as tomorrow is... yet another race day and... yet another National Championship: the 50-mile Trail Nationals on the Pioneer Spirit and Western States trails! Ironically, I had written half this post on race day but got interrupted to celebrate my big day with running buddies. Then I got swamped again in work travel (New York, NY and Milwaukee, WI) all that in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic blooming... Anyway, here is what I had written on that Sunday March 1 of 2020... I still consider myself injured as my butt still hurts at every left stride and it has been on going since November 2018 (Silicon Valley Turkey Trot 10K). So odd to think that most people always used to fear I'd break by logging so many miles, yet it was on a short 10K that it happened, after 20 almost injury-less years and more than 50,000 miles... There is a saying ...