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New Running Shoes

Claudine — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 04:02:07 +0000

Like the noob I was, I started running in old, old way-too-small Sauconys - a fairly little-used pair that had seen some Lindy Hop partner dancing and perhaps some hip-hop choreography over the past 8(?) years. As I neared the completion of our Couch to 5K program, I decided to invest in some new [...]

Training/ Workout Summary Week of 20-26 February

Claudine — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:09:25 +0000

Tuesday 4.65 miles on the treadmill - easy. 8.36 pace. Legs felt tired, even after 2 days off. Couldn't do much with inclines - halfheartedly tried with some 2-3% elevation but not for very long. Then just tried to go fast. Wednesday 6.03 miles on the treadmill - inclines. 8.50 pace. 3 sets of 2-3, [...]

Brazen Bay Breeze Half 2012

Claudine — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:44:16 +0000

Yes, still new to running, so I'm selecting the "fast and flat" courses to try out before getting into the more challenging trails + hills or even hillier road races. This event out by the San Leandro Marina, is the speediest of races Brazen offers, and apparently so flat and boring that hardcore trail fiends [...]

Beachside Coffee Bar and Kitchen

Claudine — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:36:55 +0000

Running through the park and down along the Great Highway brings us to the end of the N Judah line by design. We're usually too lazy to run back uphill through Golden Gate Park and would rather take MUNI back home. What's great about this area is that in the recent few years a number [...]

Kaiser Half Marathon 2012

Claudine — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:24:40 +0000

I have to admit being nervous for the Kaiser race. I think it might have been because this was my first “big” race of the season – I hadn’t run an official Half since last November’s Quarry Turkey race. Then, I had jumped from my longest training run of 9 miles to a 13.2+ mile [...]

A Trip to Napa

Claudine — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:23:38 +0000

San Francisco's proximity to the Napa Valley is another one of the zillion reasons as to why we love living in the SF Bay Area. However, DD did not choose his first marathon to run exclusively because it was in Napa. He chose it based on a friend's recommendation that it was a fast, downhill [...]

Excuses

Claudine — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:59:07 +0000

It's been a while, my friends (all 4 of you who may actually read this, ha!). But - I just wanted to provide an update as to where I am (still in San Francisco, thank goodness), and why I've been silent. It hasn't been for the lack of tasty adventures. We took a trip to [...]

Hainanese Chicken Rice

Claudine — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:41:01 +0000

It must have been the moment that I saw Flickr friend anakorpa’s photo of Hainanese Chicken Rice from Cafe D'lite in Vancouver that the cravings began. Hainanese Chicken Rice is one of those seminal foods that I distinctly remember from my childhood. Silky slices of tender chicken, fragrant rice, clear gingery soup and the accompanying [...]

Sushi Endo | Osaka

Claudine — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:45:50 +0000

Osaka has a central wholesale fish market much like Tsukiji in Tokyo, with its own 4:15am Tuna auction. Had we known that Tsukiji would be so restricted (we should have known and watched for this after the earthquake), we would have made more of an effort to make it to Osaka's version, which seems more [...]

Arctic Queen Nectarine Galette

Claudine — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:26:08 +0000

In my quest for fast and easy desserts, I loved stumbling upon this amazing 3-ingredient recipe for a fruit galette, posted by Smith and Ratliff on Marcus Samuelsson's blog. As I'd mentioned before, I often tend to focus on the savoury, giving short shrift to sweet things. In my family my mom and I were [...]