Rooted

  I like good music.  If the sounds and lyrics of the songs like “Come on Home” doesn’t elicit some emotion in you, stick out your hand and [...]

  Or, the “serious problem of sensational editorial in sports nutrition?” The other day a good friend and fellow endurance athlete shared a link on the Rooted Facebook page [...]

  About three or so years ago my step father, a wine enthusiast (also a boating enthusiast and / or a guy who likes to boat) took his [...]

Last weekend we hiked Mt. Whitney.  Aside from developing philosophical revelations while on the mountain, I also developed a short list of the key things to bring when [...]

Somewhere near the end of my college career I remember sitting down with my then swim coach Gerry Rodrigues in his office alongside the pool deck at UCLA, [...]

  About three weeks ago my buddy Ryan asked me if I’d race the 2-man 8 hour Hammerstein mountain bike race with him on what I thought was [...]

I have an interesting relationship with “stuff.”  By and large, I don’t like it.  I am a bit of a efficiency-oriented (obsessed) minimalist, and get stressed out by [...]

  I recently wrote an article for the fitness website Breaking Muscle on how the home gardening athlete can go about selecting what fruits and vegetables to start growing.  [...]

  On Friday night a group of us went to the opening of the exhibit “Walk Art Way” at Gallery Godo.  Gallery Godo is a gallery located off [...]

  Racers are a special breed, a subset of athletes.  There is no doubt that racing requires a unique mentality.  It only took a few years of being [...]