I would have normally ran easy the day after a race but today I did two workouts.  At 8am Bill Dunn, Rich Stiller and JoAnn Dahiloetter came over to the house.  We decided to go up to Foothill college and run the old 5-mile fun run course.  Rich and Bill had met there over 30 years before and JoAnn sometime later.  Michael and Waitman filmed us for "A Long Run."

Moody Road in Los Altos Hills, CA is a beautiful place to run.  We wanted to stay flat and actually we had forgotten that there are some hills along the way.  We had all run here many times before and I guess the hills were not not noticed as much in our younger days.

I had not spoken with JoAnn much in the past even through we had seen each other a lot at races over the years.  She gave me a copy of her book "Your Performing Edge" and I am looking forward to reading it.   She was the winner of the 1980 San Francisco marathon and second in the 1982 World Championship Hawaii Ironman Triathlon. 

Bill Dunn and I have known each other for nearly 40 years.  We have battled it out many times on the road and most of the time he came out on top.  But I did beat him a few times.  Oddly enough we had not taken the time to do many training run together until this morning.  It was a real pleasure.  He has a great story and is being featured in our movie.

Going into this run, Rich was concerned that his calf would hold up.  The good news is that it did.  I think he is on the road to recovery.  Thank god! Injuries are the worse!!!!  Photo by Waitman for Ujena Fit Club

I had not officially met Matt and Mark Tompkins until yesterday at the Chinese New Year 10k.  I had seen Matt many times at the races over the last 20 years but other than smiling at each other we had not met.  Mark lives on the East coast and I am not sure I even knew Matt had a twin brother.  Before the start of the race yesterday, I motioned to them I would like to talk to them about our film.  They finished second and third and we made a plan.  They will be featured in "A Long Run" since they have a great story...

This was my second run of the day and all three of us pushed ourselves in the 10k yesterday but Matt had his team out running 60 minutes (he is the track coach at Gunn High School) and could Mark and I not tag along.

We had a really enjoyable 5.5 mile run through Los Altos Hills near Gunn High School.  Photos by Michael Anderson Ujena Fit Club

This is the way to see China Town.  I thought I had run this race many years ago but I realized this morning that I had not.  There is an unique atmosphere surrounding the Chinese New Year 10k and 5k run/walk.  The course was long and they didn't post results (at least I did not see it) but I will be back next year. 

I spoke with Bob Darling before the start.  He laid out the course and even through there were four hills, it could have been much tougher.  Since I am not a good hill runner (at least right now), I did loose about 45 seconds.  BTW, Bob was a good runner in the past but was not running because of a knee situation.

Speaking with Mark and Matt before the start.  There are not too many twins as fast as they are.  They finished second and third after leading most of the way.  They are being featured in our film.

Mark and Matt pushing up one of the tough hills leading the pack.  They have 40 yards on the runner in orange who won at this point...just after three miles.

Verity was first woman overall.  She is from Australia and will be sharing some good advice in our film.

I did a stupid thing.  Somehow my Garmin powered off right before the start and I played with it trying to run a good first mile.  I finally got it straighten out about two minutes later.  I need to figure this out before the next race.

Mike really liked this location and got some really good footage.

Speaking with Miss California Chinatown.  She ran the 5k and explaining what the Year of the Dragon means.

It was a good day...

Photos by Catherine Cross Ujena Fit Club and A Long Run

More photos at: Chinese New Year Run 2012