Category: running & adventure

My sport involves feet and trails and moving one quickly across the other.

  • fifty walks, walk one

    fifty walks, walk one

    I’m no April fool, but spring has been playing tricks on all of us this year. It seems to tease a warm up but then chill out the next day and offer up a little bit more snow. Case in point. Yesterday I did my first of the fifty walks series, and I didn’t even…

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  • fifty walks

    fifty walks

    A month or so before I left my big government job in 2023 I made a list.  It was that typical sort of list for someone going through a life transition and it contained one hundred and change ideas of how to spend the next year or so, keeping busy and not losing my mind.…

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  • head over feets, fourteen

    head over feets, fourteen

    I lost the plot. I mean, we went to Japan and I while there I did (but did not log here) two runs, including an amazing little side quest to check out a Park Run in Futakotamagawa on our first weekend, and a half lap of Disneyland Tokyo on our last weekend. Then we came…

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  • forty nine

    forty nine

    Describe your 2025 in terms of fitness, health, mind and body. Healing.  There was a time when, privacy be damned, I’d disclose and lament any and all of my personal ailments on a blog like this… but needless to say those days are gone. It’s enough for you to know that I am now in…

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  • little or lotta lazy

    little or lotta lazy

    What do you wish you’d done more of this past year? A few months after my daughter was born and as the days counted down to the stereotypical New Years Eve regrets and resolution-making, my mind shifted towards fitness. Something compelled me to log onto the website for a local running store and sign up…

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