Tag: elprieto
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El Prieto redux
I just finished uploading some awesome new photos taken by our friend Gerry on Saturday at this year’s El Prieto Handicap race. He caught some great action shots of people running, and he was positioned at a point early enough in the race (at the bottom of the El Prieto Trail) that people still look…
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Celebrating
This weekend marked the 16th annual El Prieto Handicap – Chuck’s annual race. It’s a very neat event, held in the San Gabriel Mountains in an area called Oak Grove Park. Two miles of the race is on a single track trail called El Prieto (hence the race name), and every year the direction alternates:…
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El Prieto 2008 or how I nearly shattered my kneecap, broke my ankle, killed my iPod and cut off my finger in one day
Greetings! It was quite a weekend, this weekend just past. Actually, it was just a hell of a day. It started early with the 15th annual running of Chuck’s El Prieto Handicap. This was a downhill year, which means a good part of the course (a lot of which was single track trail) was, well,…
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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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El Prieto 2006 edition and assorted other weekend activities
This past weekend was quite a whirlwind of activity. In fact, all of last week was a whirlwind of activity. We were in San Diego from Tuesday around noon to Friday around noon on business, then we drove to Pasadena so we could mark the trail for Chuck’s annual El Prieto Handicap. We were done…
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A grand time was had by all
So this past Saturday was Chuck’s annual El Prieto Handicap race! Last year’s race was memorable as poor Chuck was still in his neck brace, just two weeks out of spinal surgery and I wasn’t much better, as I was still recovering from my ankle surgery. It was iffy as to whether he was going…
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