Home again

Back in Los Angeles! I worked out at the gym near Dave’s parents’ house twice (Precor/elliptical, short swim, weight lifting), and, most amazingly, didn’t gain weight over the holidays (yet; Mel’s having her big New Year’s Eve bash...

Solvang, Turkey Trot

The Solvang ride didn’t go so well for me. (The wine tasting etc was wonderful though.) The Turkey Trot did — about 8 min faster than last year. Yay! Training for the Carlsbad Half is going okay — I’m obviously getting faster. Sorry so short,...

Planning for next year?

Long run this a.m. — only 6 miles but Dave and I did intervals yesterday and I was wiped. We’re loosely following the half marathon training program Your Better Half at Runner’s World. I had an awesome, ‘why can’t I run like this in a...

Manhattan Beach 10k

We did the Manhattan Beach 10k this year. My time was 1:13:56 clock, about 20-30 sec faster (off the top of my head) by my watch. I’m pleased overall. My right knee started aching the last mile. I’ve not yet downloaded the Polar data; it’ll be...

Escrow

Well, our house was in escrow, then it wasn’t (buyers backed out), now it will be again Monday (new buyers). That’s my excuse for being negligent re: blogging. That said, I cut almost 20 min off my time from Malibu last year — awesome! I’m...