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The Night Before Big Sur Trail

The Night Before Big Sur Trail

T’was the night before the big race and all through the house, I’m remembering stuff to pack, while sitting on my couch. My number all pinned to my shirt and shoe laces fixed, I set about nutrition and magic potions to mix. Pre-race drinks and lotions, ketones for fuel, I’ve got some Skratch gummies and a recovery drink too. All that’s left is to fall asleep so I can awake early to make coffee ...
I've gone through every iteration of the On Cloudflyer and usually platooned them with the Brooks Adrenaline. I recently realized I had worn out my Ons faster than normal — courtesy of shin and knee pain as my mileage and time on my feet increased — and started looking for a higher mileage shoe. Thanks to Fleet Feet, I've ran on nearly every brand of cushion shoe out there and haven't liked any...
The fall equinox is often associated with a time of healing, abundance, and letting go of things that don't serve us, but it has often been the opposite for me. Since getting sick in 2012, my close-to-death experiences and each of my 20 surgeries have come between September and January. Even though I'm not a superstitious person, I'm typically starting to brace myself by the time the autumnal e...
The site now has an RSS feed that you can drop into any reader to receive updates and posts to your personal news feed. I set up the feed in Reader by Readwise and it looks gorgeous! Just drop https://gotostepone.com/feed.rss into your RSS reader and you should be good to go! [Image] Coming soon: newsletter signup and maybe a podcast...?!
Infusion day is always a bit like a spin of roulette, never knowing how the Remicade is going to affect me for the next couple of days. Luckily, with the holiday, it was an easy drive to Stanford  — fast in, fast out — with a quick stop for Vietnamese food in Sunnyvale on my way back to Monterey. 🤞that I can make it to the Fleet Feet Pub Run tonight.
By looking at my training for the month of August, I guess I can say I'm finally back! It has been a long recovery, but the last 9 months of working with my strength coach and easing into training is starting to really show dividends. 30 activities in August, nearly 100 miles running and a pretty good looking distribution of effort with just around ~80% of my effort below threshold and the bulk...
Seeing an article in my inbox talking about studies to put autoimmune disease into remission using B cell blockades got me excited. The study was small and focused on Lupus not IBD, but the results were very promising and will hopefully promote more work in this area. “"all five patients were able to achieve drug-free remission at three months and remained in remission at the time of publicatio...
It was quite a week here — we moved our bakery to a new kitchen for more capacity to grow, I recorded my second Strong Savvy Cyclist Podcast episode with my coach (listen to the first conversation here), and got going on the Coros Half Marathon Training Camp! Also, my first 20+ mile week post-surgery. Things are definitely headed in the right direction
My busiest race season ever continues: Next up, a 10k run in the redwoods at the Santa Cruz Trail Run put on by Inside Trail Racing — and only one month before the Big Sur Trail Half Marathon really tests me! #crohns #ibd #autoimmuneathlete #fleetfeetmonterey

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