It's been a while since I last posted.
Lots of things have been going on, and I won't try to do full reports of all of it, since that's how I fell off the wagon in late summer/fall. But here's a short recap on what I've been up to.
The races mentioned in an earlier post went well, PRing in both of them. I finished the Moonlight 10k in 47:03, about 30 seconds faster than last year. Before the CIM in Sacramento I ran another 10k, the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot in San Jose. At this point the speed workouts had paid off and I further improved my PR to 45:22. The highlight of the 2009 running season was the California International Marathon though. Despite cold temperatures and headwinds for about 18 miles it was an awesome race. Great organization, fast course, plenty of well stocked aid stations... a good experience, allowing me to improve my time from last year's Las Vegas marathon by over 31 minutes. Well, I guess actually training for this race helped a bit as well.
All the running (between 100 and 125 miles/month for Aug, Sep, Oct, and Nov) meant that I didn't get much climbing in except for a trip to the Pinnacles in November.
The day before heading to Germany I managed to get the first day of skiing in for the season.
Northstart at Tahoe was surprinsingly dissapointing... My favorite resort here is still Kirkwood, followed by Squaw Valley.
Speaking of Kirkwood, had a great day there last weekend. After a few warm-up runs Peter and I hit the trees ans chutes, having tons of fun. I'm looking forward to more days like this! Given the huge storm which is moving in to California the skiing conditions should only improve.
What else is on the plate for the near future?
I'll try to keep the running mileage up, aiming for a few races in spring. There will be more culinary adventures with the continued subscription to the CSA box (possibly extended by a subscription to a CSA meat box, depending on the outcome of tonight's cooking experiment). By the way: Food. I have been bad about keeping up with the "Castro Street Challenge", even the list of restaurants there is hopelessly outdated.
I am not big on resolutions, but I'll try to post more regularly again!
