Tag: spring

  • 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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  • Spring Runoff

    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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  • Tracks in the Mud

    Tracks in the Mud

    There were imprints of multiple bike tire treads in the dried mud. This particular corner is not exactly technical, but it would inevitably pose a challenge for a novice off-road cyclist. The hairpin turn is at the lowest point of a narrow runoff trench, a kind of wrinkle in the landscape where water might escape

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  • works of wandering

    works of wandering

    As of two o’clock in the afternoon I have logged nearly seventeen thousand steps. Walking. Wandering. Vaguely destinationed towards places where I could sit and write after walking and reading and trying not to trip and fall flat on my face. I’ll be the first to admit that I had no real plan about what

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  • book reviews: april flowers

    book reviews: april flowers

    I just posted about my newfound enjoyment of walking and reading and so I figured now may be as good as time as any to start doing some light logging of the books I’ve been reading while out and about. Is it any surprise that two of those books are literally books about walking? A

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