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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
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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Spring Runoff
I had this grand plan about ramping up my mileage for spring. Each year around this time I’ve been “streaking” — but in the running, way, as in trying to run a minimum distance each day. Setting a running streak. Three weeks or maybe even a month of consecutive running. Kicking off April first with…
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the other day I saw a bear
Atop a mountain this past summer, backcountry camping for three nights an eight hour hike from civilization, I spent an hour each day keeping up my writing by scribbling narratives of our daily advenutres into my smartphone. This is one of my entries. day three Bears have long held a kind of place of abstract…
Category: running & adventure
My sport involves feet and trails and moving one quickly across the other.