Category: running & adventure

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

  • head over feets, one

    head over feets, one

    I used to write a whole blog about running and fitness. And then? Well. It was one of the only things that was lost that I truly cared about in the hack that took down my little private server—back a couple years ago. Ten years of rambling journals about races and training and side-fitness projects.

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  • head over feets: zen edition

    head over feets: zen edition

    I have been doing a self-experiment. (That’s what I am going to call these things that others might call “challenges” or “streaks” of trying to build a habit over the course of 30 days. Experiments on myself.) I have been meditating every day. And before you get the images of me all new-age yogi omming

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  • seeking adventure

    seeking adventure

    Imagine you are flying. Down a trail. Over the crest of a low hill. Around a hairpin curve in the path blinded by a dense forest of trees. I think a lot of people hear the term ‘running’ and can’t fathom that it means anything more than grueling hours spent on a treadmill. I think

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  • accidental distances

    accidental distances

    It was only a little accidental that I ran my longest run of the season yesterday. But heck, it wasn’t much to brag about either way: barely thirteen klicks all in. And barely one when it came right down to it. My running is not doing great these days. I mean, I have always had

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  • run club restart

    run club restart

    I tend to have a lot of sentimental vibes for run club. In its current form it is a pale shadow of when I first showed up at my local run store for a clinic, oh, seventeen years ago now, but it exists enough that I attended the latest session of it last night and

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