Farragut State Park.
Dave, Jeni and I did some virgin powder off-trail snowshoeing. 🙂
Category: health & fitness
New Years 10km run
Good turn out at Adlard’s party the last night of 2015 – about 32 people and 2 dogs.
New Years day 10am tradition. The hung over first run of the year.
For the first time I actually trained for this. It did me no good. I ran about the same as usual – 1 hour.
running Top Bridge park, B.C.
With a 10km run coming up January 1st, I’ve been running a lot of late.
Wet. But good fun. 🙂
running in winter
I’ve been bundling up, running in the snow every day. Gots that New Years Day 10km coming up. 🙂
stop logging the Ghost watershed
I signed a Change.org page:
Petitioning Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Honourable and 2 others
Call for an immediate moratorium on logging in the Ghost Watershed.
Anna Glaser’s family has a vacation home in the Ghost. Spray Lake Sawmills wants to cut down as many trees as possible. Spray Lake Sawmills is the bad guy. 😦
Here’s Anna’s take on the situation – Ghost Stories
Here are Anna’s family and friends of the Ghost protesting.
Ladakh Marathon, India
The 4th Ladakh Marathon ran Sunday September 13th.
I tried to register in person on the 12th. And was turned down. Told they already had 4000 registrants. But went to watch the start anyway, just for fun.
In past years (we heard) the start was atop the Peace Stupa.
A runner from Bangalore and I climbed the steep stairs in the early dawn light, both feeling the altitude.
We were wrong. The start was actually down below on the other side of the Stupa.
The full marathon drops down to cross the Indus river. Then climbs up to Stok – the green patch under the mountains. The Dalai Lama spends a lot of time in Stok. I’ll start my trek there.
And they’re off.
I’d estimate about 1000 runners. Perhaps 4000 total were registered, counting all the local students that didn’t actually turn up. 🙂
Still, it was an impressive sight.
acclimatizing to altitude in Leh, Ladakh
Flying from sea level to Leh at 3524 metres (11,562 ft), it’s strongly recommended you rest for at least 3 days. To acclimatize.
I recall doing exactly that after flying in to Lhasa 3,650m some years ago.
Instead I decided to register for the Ladakh Half Marathon. … What could go wrong?
Luckily for me they turned away my last minute US$35 registration. With nearly 4000 runners already signed up, I was one too many.
I’ll acclimatize at least 3 days before hitting the trail. After all. 🙂
smoking around the world
I hate smoking. Yet worldwide smoking rates are not declining. Richer, more educated nations are in decline. But in poor nations (like Nigeria) rates are on the rise.
Click PLAY or watch a short Economist report on YouTube.
The Economist explains – Why smoking rates aren’t falling around the world
next magnitude-9.0 earthquake – Pacific Northwest?
Rockin’ (who lives in Vancouver, Canada) linked to a scary article in The New Yorker:
Just north of the San Andreas, however, lies another fault line. Known as the Cascadia subduction zone, it runs for seven hundred miles off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, beginning near Cape Mendocino, California, continuing along Oregon and Washington, and terminating around Vancouver Island, Canada. …
By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”
In the Pacific Northwest, everything west of Interstate 5 covers some hundred and forty thousand square miles, including Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, Salem (the capital city of Oregon), Olympia (the capital of Washington), and some seven million people. …
The Really Big One
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.
Here’s a map of the I-5
😦
I think I’ll depart Vancouver Island. Fly to someplace … higher. Colorado.
