Course-Trained - Running the Mountain Trails

Every year I try to do at least one trip to the Midwest to visit my Dad. Last year was Kettle Moraine 100KM . It was an epic day filled wi...

Having business in Salt Lake City on Friday, on Saturday I did the Buffalo Run on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake in Utah. This gre...

Despite the impending rain (which turned out to be not so bad and probably helped times overall), twenty runners gathered at Novitiate Park ...

This year's Overgrown Fatass will be held on February 8th at 8am at the Jones Trailhead in Novitiate Park in Los Gatos. It has been adve...

One of my favorite training runs takes me from my house in the Santa Cruz mountains to Santa Cruz all on trails. I documented the full tunn...

This is one of just two Pacific Coast Trail Runs races that I haven't done, and the only one in the Bay area that I've never experie...

This race is the original fatass, a s I described last year . I drove the ten miles from my house in the Santa Cruz mountains to the start ...

Pacific Coast Trail Runs saves some of their most beautiful courses, Muir and Rodeo Beaches in the Marin Headlands, for the end of the year...

I got asked recently for my opinion on good trail shoes. The following nine shoes are my tried and true stalwarts. Left to right starting...

The PCTR season is winding down with three races in December. Huddart Park in Woodside is a favorite training run haunt and I've done t...

In all honesty, this is not one of my favorite races. It runs mostly on the Los Gatos Creek Trail WHICH THEY DON'T CLOSE. Yes, that...

I hadn't run this race since 2006, when I won the short course. I was eager to try some of the tough climbs on the "back loop...

I like this race a lot for a number of reasons: - its point to point. I love point to point races. Makes you feel like you're going so...

The Lost Tunnels to Santa Cruz run will start at 8am on Saturday, November 1st, the day after Halloween. This is an unorganized free, ...

What a fine weekend of trail running in paradise this was! I was eagerly anticipating the PCTR Santa Cruz race . It's held on the trails...