Ouch! My Jemez Half Marathon (mis)Adventures: a humbling return to racing

Part 1: The Race Report This past weekend, I ran the Jemez Half Marathon, a trail race held in my hometown of Los Alamos, NM.  This past Saturday, a few hundred cheerful runners lined up behind a chalked-in start line to make our way through the spectacular canyons of the Jemez Mountains.  A couple of …

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Dog Safety & Manners

As temperatures rise and daylight hours start to stretch out, more people are out on the trails, in the parks and on the roads exercising.  With those people often come their furry friends. This past weekend on my long run in the Albuquerque Bosque, I had a recent stand off with an aggressive dog and …

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