Last Night's Beers

Uncle Rob is visiting from Hong Kong - always off the charts fun when he is in town. We had a great weekend hanging out, swimming, running, hanging with the kids, etc. We celebrated our long trail run by tasting a few special beers. The Eisbock in particular was truly excellent.

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New glasses

What do you all think - yay or nay? A bit different than my existing ones.

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Greetings from NYC

Greetings from the BIg Apple. I am here for a few days of whirlwind meetings and I apologize in advance to anyone I was unable to see. Not a lot of free time. In fact, so little free time that the past two days I have forced myself to wake up early - 7 am (4 am according to my body clock) and run. Yesterday I went to Central Park, which will always be hallowed ground for me (it's where I resumed running back in 96). I left my hotel room wearing the remaining "warm" clothes that I own - and I proceeded to freeze my ass off. I mean that almost literally. It was so cold it was staggering. It wasn't the temperature per se, but the wind chill. I thought I was being a wimp (note: I probably was) but later on I heard several other people complaining about the wind in particular. Yowza - that was as cold as I have been in a long, long while.

But - it was a great run regardless. Central Park is just such a cool place to run and is a quintessential New York experience in and of itself.

And beyond that - while I am *very* content living in San Francisco and wouldn't change it for anything, NYC is still one hell of an awesome City.

Chinese New Year Parade

We were lucky to get invited by friends to the VIP section of the Chinese New Year's parade in San Francisco last night. It was quite a scene, to put it mildly and very entertaining. The kids had an absolute blast. The highlight for them was a tie between the dancing dragons and the constant fusillade of firecrackers.

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Golden Gate 30k, Er, Half Marathon

I ran the Golden Gate 30k trail run as a build up to Way Too Cool 50k in a few weeks. Actually, I intended to run the 30k; apparently I missed a turn off at the first aid station and as a result, ended up running the half marathon instead. Which was too bad, because I was on a *very* good day; felt strong throughout. Once I realized the error of my way, I went through the finish line and kept on running. Ran another 6 miles at the same pace and felt terrific throughout. Must be getting in shape.

Finish time was 2:07 which was good for 18th overall. If I knew I was running that race, think I could have gone at least 5 minutes faster.

The photo is me and my friend Emily, who rocked the 30k. I'm predicting she's going to kick ass at Cool. And props too to my boy Berkeley Dave, who straight up won the 30k. He is one fast dude.

More Fun in the Snow

What a fun morning. A two mile hike up Mount Tam (a pretty arduous one at that) an hour playing in the snow, and then two miles (maybe more - took a fire trail road) back down. My kids are still over the moon with the snow. Note to self: get to Tahoe soon.

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Snow!

We had snow this weekend on Mount Tam - a serious rarity. So we hiked a few miles today to check it out. First time the Little Girl sees snow (though born in Chicago she has no recollection whatsoever).

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