I’m proud to announce that I published my first book, Sports Card Crafting: Eleven Handmade Baseball Card Art Projects. What started out with a rekindling of my childhood hobby turned into experimentation by doing crafty things with them and taking on a Card Art Challenge. I did this Challenge to appreciate cards from a different …
The Point Mugu Trail Races take place in the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains, at the southern terminus of the Backbone Trail. I live 30 minutes from the trailhead at Ray Miller Trail so this is very much a local race for me. I had a different mindset going into this, my first race of the …
This year’s Point Mugu Trail Race 10k was my first race of the year. I’ve been working hard this year, got sick some and was more than ready to get out there on the trails. Unfortunately, my training wasn’t all that great leading up to the race. I’d mostly been doing political stuff phone banking …
At the start of September of 2023, I started eating vegetarian for 2 of 3 daily meals. For the veggie meals, I chose to allow cheese and eggs. When I started that I wanted to see if I would notice any changes. I was curious to see what effects I would see on my blood …
I went into the Paramount Ranch 10K without a lot of expectations. I had been training with low volume and had recently started a treadmill challenge that focused on getting a healthy dose of daily vertical gain. Race DayI woke up before my alarm around 3am and was going to get a little more sleep …
Ok, it is another DNF story. I ran the Ray Miller 30K this past weekend out at La Jolla Canyon. I went into the race coming off a hip flare up, similar to one that hit me earlier this year. When it gets bad it feels like someone is sticking an ice pick in my …
After having an amazing time at last year’s inaugural Mammoth Trail Fest, I knew I had to come back – and hopefully bring friends. Besides the great races, chill atmosphere and friend building of last year, this year the Golden Trail World series added the 26K race to its schedule. I had to go. The …
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I barely made it to the starting line of this year’s Tough Mugu race. Quick life update – the last few weeks I was on a stressful jury duty panel, caught a week-long summer cold then strained a hip flexor at the end of that.After several weeks of zero running I was able to get …
It’s the day after the Leona Divide trail races, 2023 edition. I got up and went through my morning routine then headed out to the gym, something I hadn’t done in a while. Did some elliptical, then some barbells and finished up with some bench presses on the machine. I went to Kimball Park and …
I only had two more races scheduled for 2023 after the Sean O’Brien race but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to jump into the Point Mugu Trail Run which would be on local trails. I had an unorthodox training buildup as I was running every street in Santa Paula and was mostly running 2 …
