Photos courtesy of Linda Reed, Susan Kelleher, and Robert Thille. Not only was this a training run to prepare for my race in August but it was an opportunity to get out the tent and get some nights under the stars with my fellow trail runners.   We hiked about a mile down to the [...]

This is the third and final post on a great Memorial Day Weekend… The status jumped out at me from the computer screen: Marc Strozyk Anyone want to join me tomorrow morning for a 14 or so mile run in Annadel???? Haven’t decided on route yet but I might just meander. Let me know. After [...]

In February of 2010 I had the honor of participating in the first annual Annadel Half Marathon.   I wrote about my experience there in a past WW column. That event raised over $25,000 and sold out in two months with just four months of planning. Fourteen months later the second running of the  Annadel [...]

The 2011 Petaluma Footrace took place at the Petaluma Marina on April 10th under sunny clear skies with a slight 5 mph breeze and temperatures in the high 50’s to low 60’s along the Petaluma River. I started this race with the goal of pacing myself and finding a pace I could maintain. I didn’t [...]

The first Sunday in April , we joined the Empire Runners for a 2×7 mile trail run relay known as the Annadel Loop de Loop.  You could enter as a two person team each running a 7 mile loop or as an individual doing 14 miles.  I elected to take the first loop in the [...]

So I haven’t had much to write as to my training for the upcoming Annadel Half Marathon. I did lose a couple of weeks to the seasonal virus that robbed me of about two weeks. It had me feeling puny through the first two weeks of March. In fact I didn’t log any mileage until [...]

This week the weather was forcast to be wet and cold with snow predicted late in the week.  Aside from some scattered flurries the snow never accumulated , but we had a clear cold morning with frost and ice on our long run Sunday at Annadel Park.  The 9 mile route was our hilliest yet.  4.5 miles [...]

Week of February 14-20 This was week # 5 of my training for the Annadel half marathon. I logged 2 base mileage runs Tuesday and Wednesday, of 4.87 and 7.84 miles, then Finished up the Week Sunday with a good trail run of 7.8 miles on the trails on the “back” side of Annadel Park. [...]

Now that I have begun my applications in other states, the realization has hit me that I have let my conditioning slip, even during hunting season. It is hard to go for a run when you could just as easily slip out for a quick leisurely evening hunt. Then the holidays seem to grab the [...]