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My Winter Runs Need to Get a Grip
Sunday Run Day and for the first time in two months I took part in a group run with a small cohort of friends. Our locality has been on pandemic-related lockdown since late November, and all my runs have been solo. But COVID-related hospitalizations have been down. New case numbers have been declining. And the…
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Gear: Garmin Fenix 3
I’ve owned and used my current GPS watch for the better part of four years. But before you read this know that the Fenix 3 is far from the latest model of Garmin’s multisport watch. Also know that I’m not a “latest and greatest” kind of guy, usually sticking with the “tried and true” until…
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Maybe It’s Cold Outside?
It’s Sunday Runday, and I’m going to stay in and ride the stationary bike. I woke up and looked at the temperature as I was letting the dog out at 6am. It was twenty degrees below zero with a brisk wind. Also, it snowed. Snowed lightly covering up the layer of glassy ice covering a…
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squall
as the door clicked shutmy headlamp broadcast a stark beamslicing a path through the winter dark as I took my first stepsmy watch reached skyward for a signaltracking my pace across the icy walks as I started to runmy face caught the sudden rush of windsensing the winter air stirring ahead in the park as…
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Iceland: Chasing Waterfalls
I snapped close to ten thousand photos over the course of not-quite-two weeks travelling around Iceland in 2014, and disproportional number of those pics included waterfalls. for whatever one photo is worth: Skógafoss is a huge waterfall on the Skógá River in the very southern bulge of Iceland. It was one of the first big…
Category: running & adventure
My sport involves feet and trails and moving one quickly across the other.