Viet’s Blog

    Its a wrap! Another Hood to Coast in the books. These things always tend to sneak up on me and every year, the race finds a way to make things interesting. For those unfamiliar, its basically a 200 mile relay race starting from Timberline Lodge at Mt Hood, all the way down to the beach in Seaside, Oregon. There are 12 runners divided into two vans and for next ~36 continuous hours, there is a team member on the road making their way down to the coast. When one van finishes 6 legs, they find a spot to rest/sleep then meet up with the other van 6 legs later, continuing the process until both vans are at the beach. In recent years I've been taking running much more seriously -- putting in the requisite amount of miles in order to improve, strength training, educating myself on the different modes of running that gives me the most bang for my buck, improvements wise. (I can get into those modalities in a separate post.) Conversely, I've also been putting Hood to Coast on the b...

 Its been a minute. Not here for a long time, just wanted to do an "all killer, no filler" update. After a stint with projects and friends, I'm going to go back to basics and use a generic blogger blog. Its got no frills. Its simple. I'm old now. I want to worry about random wordpress plugins and updates and etc. etc. etc.   without the high concept techie stuff it might be easier for me to sit down and write about stuff, or at least post content that's too long form for social media. We'll see what happens!