Category: recreational fun & games
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The fine art of barfing and peeing discreetly
Part one of our multi-part getting-ready-to-go-on-our-first-trip-together-to-Europe series: We are starting serious planning of our European vacation in September. The first part of the trip involves running a marathon in Medoc, in the Bordeaux region of France. We’re spending five days there, three of which will be devoted to marathon activities (primarily tasting wine, then tasting…
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Riding down the highway, looking for adventure
We took the motorcycle down to Temecula for an overnight trip this past weekend. It’s a perfect distance for my fragile ass (which gets quite sore after about two hours non-stop sitting on the back of the motorcycle) – about an hour and a half of easy freeway and/or blue highway driving. We went down…
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Another day, another race
It’s beginning to feel like all we do is run. We’re either doing it for work-related reasons, or we’re running actual races somewhere. Last weekend it was for the Santa Barbara Wine Country Half, this weekend it was Chuck’s annual El Prieto Handicap. Every year he reverses the direction, so this was an uphill year.…
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Dragging our sorry asses along the road for thirteen miles
Or, as some others might call it, running a half-marathon. That’s what we did yesterday up in the Solvang area for the inaugural Santa Barbara Wine Country Half Marathon. We stayed in Solvang, where the race finished (it started in Santa Ynez), which is one of the quaintest towns on earth. It fancies itself as…
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