Or something like that. D & I have the surprising habit of going for little runs when visiting Scotland. One thing we don’t normally see is *other people running*. A weekend or two ago, one dry Sunday morning around 9am, I toddled along the canal and up the Coach Road and saw at least 4 […]
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Where are the pedals?
27 hours 20 minutes
Danika cruising at sunset, originally uploaded by machaggis. That’s currently the unofficial time of team 95 (“Ultra Crawlers”) at the Ragnar. Our team of amateur, we-really-shouldn’t-be-here, Ultra runners cranked home an impressive run. Here are a few photos (I’ll add to the album later). Some of my more personal stats: Hours slept: 3 Leg 1 […]
Continue readingRagnar 2008
It’s that time again…. tomorrow is the Northwest Ragnar. This year I have convinced D to run it with me! And in a spate of craziness we are also doing the Ultra – twice as much running and half as much support in the car (1 driver, 1 support, 1 runner – in the regular […]
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My fourth Seafair half-marathon! This year there was a new course – more interesting, but harder. We ran one-way from UW to Bellevue – going over the 520 bridge, which was great fun. There were more hills and less dullness than the old Bellevue-centric route, but we also had a hot day – starting about […]
Continue readingEssay on the harmful effects of modern running shoes.
During barefoot running, the ball of the foot strikes the ground first and immediately starts sending signals to the spinal cord and brain about the magnitude of impact and shear, getting most of its clues about this from the skin contact with the surface irregularities of the ground. Take away this contact by adding a […]
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Running Hot – Leg 9 (2007-07-27_DSC_8724.jpg), originally uploaded by machaggis. Friday and Saturday were interesting. The Ragnar Relay Northwest Passage ’07. Quite how I was talked into it, I don’t know, but I had a blast. Our team (the “Crawlers”) ended up 35 out of 58, although 8 for 8 for the “all male” teams. […]
Continue readingBah sucks to undue pessimism
In what is now becoming an annual event we trekked over to Bellevue for the Seafair half-marathon. I’d done a reasonable amount of ‘ok’ training for it this year, but in the last four weeks combinations of business travel, migraines and pulled muscles had me picturing doom and gloom and images of unmitigated disaster ahead. […]
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We have a friend, Kristen, who happens to see us about once a week. Given Danika’s voyage through pregnancy this means that every week Kristen gets to see real progress as Danika’s belly develops. And often comments on mine. Yes, sympathy belly has struck and I’m running a little lardy these days. I’d like to […]
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Sunday, 9th July, Bellevue, Seafair Half-Marathon 1 Hour 42 Minutes 21 Seconds (unofficial) A few weeks of preparation paid off in the run yesterday. I was pretty happy with my time – over 6 minutes better than the struggle from the year before (although eating gourmet food the night before had been fun). Surprisingly many […]
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Yesterday we bit off more than expected. We tried to run Tiger “3 Summits”, got slightly lost on the Section Line at the start (the notes never said to run on “unmaintained trail“), and then ended up walking up most of the Tiger #3 West Summit (as opposed to East Tiger, where I mountain bike). […]
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