Articles by Tung Yin

About Tung Yin (265 Articles)

Law prof by day, runner all the time. Got off the couch in January 2011 and have been obsessed with running ever since.

Race Preview: 2019 Halloweenathon 5K/10K/fun run

October 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

The end of October is not far away, and that means Halloween is upon us. Halloween is on a Thursday this year, but no one races on Thursday. (Well, except for Thanksgiving, which is always on a Thursday and is the home of lots of turkey trots. But [read more...]

Race Preview: Great Columbia Crossing 10K (Astoria)

September 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Oh man, if I weren’t busy on Sundays in the fall, the Great Columbia Crossing is a race that I would definitely want to run. Held this year on October 13, it takes you from Washington to Oregon via the Astoria-Megler Bridge, which is the [read more...]

Race Recap: 2019 Oregon Fall Half Marathon/Quarter Marathon/5K (St. Josef’s Winery)

September 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

As if on cue, the Oregon weather turned from summer to fall on a dime right in time for the Oregon Fall Half Marathon/Quarter Marathon/5K at St. Josef’s Winery. The several hundred runners who showed up in Canby on the morning of September 7, [read more...]

The Ex-Fortysomething Runner: A Tale of Two Cities (running in Taipei and Victoria, Canada)

September 2, 2019 // 2 Comments

It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times… Well, not exactly, but the two places that I visited over the summer did offer a pretty striking contrast in climate-friendliness to running. Taipei First up was Taipei, Taiwan, in [read more...]

Race Preview: 2019 Oregon Fall Half Marathon, Quarter Marathon, and 5K

August 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Fall is right around the corner, and so too is the Oregon Fall Half Marathon/Quarter Marathon/5K. This is the fourth and final installment of Uberthons’ seasonal races throughout the areas surrounding the Portland metro region. The Fall Event [read more...]

Race Recap: 2019 Oregon Summer Quarter Marathon

August 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

July is the month for Uberthons’ big summer event in Vernonia/Banks, where it staged its very first full marathon several years ago. As in recent years, this was a big event with distance options of full, half, and quarter marathon. The half [read more...]

What Run Oregon is Wearing: Garmin Forerunner 35

July 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

My trusty Garmin Forerunner 220, a birthday gift from my wife six years ago, went totally haywire a few days ago, at first claiming that my easy running pace was around 14 min/mile, and then later changing its mind and deciding that, no, I was [read more...]

Race Recap: ORRC 5 on the 4th

July 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

I normally run the Freedomthon on July 4, but with that race on hiatus this year, I looked around for another Independence Day race. The ORRC 5 on the 4th checked off all of the boxes: on the southwest side of town, not too early, flat course with [read more...]

Race Preview: 2019 Oregon Summer Marathon, Half Marathon, Quarter Marathon (Banks-Vernonia Trail)

July 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

The weather’s been mildly warm, but the calendar says it’s summer, which means it’s time for the latest in race organizer Uberthons’ seasonal half marathon series. The Oregon Summer Marathon will take place on July 20 in [read more...]

Race Preview: 2019 Superhero 5K (Tigard)

June 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

Did you walk out of “Avengers: Endgame” thinking, That superhero stuff looks pretty cool; I’d like to be one? Well, short of finding some source of gamma radiation to expose yourself to (and hope to survive), or taking a massive [read more...]

Race Recap: 2019 Oregon Spring 5K (and more)

June 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

I always like to kick off Memorial Day weekend with Uberthons’ Oregon Spring race. In past years, however, it’s been a challenging race for me to participate in because the law school graduation ceremony has been on the same morning. [read more...]

Small Race Preview: 2019 Dick Inukai 5K (Hillsboro)

May 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

Oregon businessman Richard “Dick” Inukai has been instrumental in rebuilding the former Hillsboro Boys and Girls Club, now known as the Inukai Family Boys and Girls Club, among other philanthropic ventures in the Portland area. The [read more...]

Race Preview: 2019 Run with the Eagle 5K and Fun Run (Beaverton)

May 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Now in its 6th year, the Run with the Eagle 5K is a low-priced neighborhood run in the Sexton Mountain neighborhood in Beaverton. It’s described as “a joint partnership of the Sexton Mountain Parent Teacher Club and the Sexton Mountain [read more...]

Race Recap: 2019 Stoller Community 5K

May 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

On April 28th, I got to run in the 7th (and possibly last) Stoller Community 5K race. As you might guess from the name, this is a local community race centered around Stoller Middle School in Beaverton. Local, yes. Small, not so much — over [read more...]

Small Race Previews: 2019 Focus on Hope (Roseburg) and Rhody Run (Florence)

April 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

This is a preview of a couple of smaller races. First up is the Focus on Hope in Roseburg, Oregon, followed by the Rhody Run in Port Townsend, Washington. The Focus on Hope 5K/1 mile race is the Roseburg Community Cancer Center’s “annual [read more...]

Race Preview: 2019 Oregon Spring Half Marathon/Quarter Marathon/5K (St. Paul)

April 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than two months since the last Uberthons event (the Chocolatathon); the long gap was due to the absence of the Luckython, which had been run every year starting in 2011. But never fear, if you [read more...]

Race Preview: 2019 Run on the River (Astoria)

April 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

Way up there on the list of races I’d like to run if I can make them fit into my schedule is the Run on the River in Astoria. I mean, it’s a race that takes place on the Astoria Riverwalk! This year’s edition is taking place on [read more...]

Small Race Preview: 2019 Canyon Crawl (Madras)

April 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

Madras is a city on the way to Bend from Portland, and it’s also the site of the annual Canyon Crawl race, a 7.5 mile run from the city’s Public Works parking lot to nearby Lake Simtustus. There’s no race course available on the [read more...]

Race Preview: 2019 Tulip Trail Run 5K, 10K, and half marathon (Woodburn)

March 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

If you are interested in a trail race in late March, take a look at the Tulip Trail Run. This is a 5K/10K/half marathon race taking place at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm & Vineyard in Woodburn, about 30 miles south of Portland. Race day is March [read more...]

Race Recap: 2019 Chocolatathon 5K/10K

February 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

After a relatively warm winter through January, it wasn’t unreasonable to think that maybe this would be another snow-less year in Portland. But then there was that crazy start to February, when the weather forecast called for serious snow [read more...]

Race Recap: 2019 Oregon Winter Half Marathon/Quarter Marathon/5K

February 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

As an Uberthons Ambassador, I look forward to starting the new year off with the annual Winter Event at The Reserve Vineyards and Golf Course. Over the years, Uberthons and The Reserve have developed a symbiotic relationship; as the weather turns [read more...]

Race Preview: 2019 ORRC Champoeg Marathon Relay/Half Marathon/30K/10K/Kid’s Run

February 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

Champoeg State Park is a great venue for running a race of any distance. It’s like a destination event without having to travel too far (if you are coming from the Portland area). The Oregon Road Runners Club is taking full advantage of [read more...]

Run Oregon is Kickin’ it in the Brooks Adrenaline GTS 19

January 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

I am a bit tardy in writing this review of the new Brooks Adrenaline GTS 19 shoe (so tardy, in fact, that fellow Run Oregon blogger Julie Mullins published her review a few months ago). One reason for my tardiness, however, is I’ve really [read more...]

Race Preview: 2019 Chocolatathon 5K/10K (Tigard)

January 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

Do you choose which races to enter based in part or in whole on the post-race food spread? If so, the Chocolatathon will probably rate very high … unless you don’t like chocolate. (But that’s basically the null set, isn’t [read more...]

Race Preview: Uberthons 2019 Winter Half & Quarter Marathon and 5K (The Reserve Vineyards in Aloha)

December 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

As we get toward the end of the calendar year, it’s time to start thinking about next year’s races. Uberthons has released its 2019 schedule, and first up will be the Winter Half & Quarter Marathon and 5K. The race venue is The [read more...]

The Obsessed Ex-Fortysomething Runner: Brown eyes, SAD, and “reverse” SAD

December 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

The other day, I came across this article about a research paper that found a correlation between brown eyes and seasonal affective disorder (SAD). I found this interesting because when my family moved to Portland, I had wondered whether we might [read more...]