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• 2001 Bay to Breakers - May, 2001. Our first timed race of any kind. It's a 7.5-mile road race through the heart of San Francisco. With well over 50,000 people running, don't expect to go anywhere in a hurry! Everyone who lives in the Bay Area should at least entertain the thought of running the B2B. What might you see on race day? Click here! We ran this race with Antoine Guitton and James Rickett, though they fought the crowds and zoomed ahead of us. Check out some of our pictures of the race.

• 2002 Big Sur International Marathon (BSIM) - April 28, 2002. Somehow, we must've enjoyed our experience at the Bay to Breakers, because less than a year later, we found ourselves plodding past the finish line of a marathon, and a tough one at that. For me, the mental and physical challenges proved to be of a previously unknown magnitude! I wrote a BSIM run report soon after the race, so I won't ruin the story.

• 2002-2003 Injury misery - After the 2002 BSIM, we crazily decided to run another marathon. We'd done a lot of climbing and other fun stuff in the summer of 2002, hardly running at all for six months. We hoped that we'd be able to make a quick return to top running form and rushed our "comeback"...until injury struck, again, and again, and again...

• 2004 San Francisco Half Marathon - February 1, 2004. I've collected a run report for this race, which includes entries from our running blog and some photos.

• 2004 Napa Valley Marathon - March 7, 2004. Please read our run report for this race

Interactive Online Running Calculators
With these calculators, you can "build your own" custom run and use the calculator to check the distance and elevation gain.
	Stanford-area	Common road runs and runs on the (paved) Stanford Hills trails.
	Stanford/Palo Alto/Los Altos	Expanded (relative to Stanford-area calculator), including western Palo Alto/Los Altos, and much of Los Altos Hills. Warning for dialup connections: Map image is almost 1 MB
	Rancho San Antonio	This popular open space preserve near Cupertino, CA has a network of well-trodden trails, most with considerable elevation gain.
Free Running Spreadsheet
	Free Running Log Spreadsheet	Sorry for the silly self-promotion ("Free"), but I want search engines to pick up the word free because I've seen lots of people on the web charging quite a bit of $$$ for what should be a simple tool. To see how this works, try this HTML example for our 2004 Napa Valley Marathon training. The spreadsheet lets you enter a running program and charts your progress toward the race with various statistics. I've found it useful so far. To use the spreadsheet, simply fill in the green cells: race date, planned distances, and actual run distance and pace.

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