Stephen Park Cocodona 250 Finish Sep 25, 2022 ultrarunning I suggest you skip to about 5:56:00 in the video. Watch Stephen Park finish the Cocodona 250 in 121 hours, 56 minutes, 31 seconds, beating the final Analog Thinking Sep 24, 2022 musings Date Sep 24, 2022 A pretty common model of how we go about thinking is this: We think using our brain, and other parts of our body are not More on Hamster Sep 11, 2022 ultrarunning & musings Photo credit: Takao Suzuki It’s now four weeks on from Hamster Endurance Runs. The photo above, taken by Takao Suzuki about 15 seconds after I told Burn it down Sep 7, 2022 musings Just this morning, I’ve observed several political pundits and at least one ‘activist movement’ express sentiments which boil down to ‘if I don’t My Relationship With Computing Sep 6, 2022 musings A week ago I was at a dinner party celebrating the opening of a new production of King John at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It was a festive Compactenna 2m/440+ Sep 5, 2022 amateur radio Date 9/5/2022 YouTube decided I needed to watch a video about the COMPACTenna line of antennas. The inventor, Jack Nilsson N8NDL, states that the Rewards Sep 3, 2022 musings & ultrarunning Last year, at about 10am on Sunday, August 15th, I was running Hamster Endurance Runs, and I was about 27 hours in. I was deeply behind on calories, Failure Aug 25, 2022 ultrarunning & musings “Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill At Hamster Endurance, I ran 67.6 I'm not OK... Aug 19, 2022 ultrarunning I have a marathon left to go, and 10 hours to do it in. My feet are pretty beat up. But… the rest of me feels kind of OK, uh, so I’m just going to I've got blisters on my soul (and other interesting places) Aug 18, 2022 ultrarunning I’ve always had trouble with blisters on my feet when doing long runs - runs longer than, say, 40 miles or so. I suspect part of the problem is that Hamster Endurance Runs 2022 Race Report Aug 15, 2022 ultrarunning “I just took my second nap. They’ve both been about 10 minutes. I have a marathon left to go, and 10 hours to do it in. My feet are pretty beat up. The Sticking Place Aug 2, 2022 ultrarunning MACBETH If we should fail— LADY MACBETH We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place And we’ll not fail. - Wm. Shakespeare, Macbeth Last High Volume Week Aug 1, 2022 ultrarunning A couple of weeks ago about two miles into a 5 mile run, my right knee started complaining. Since the hamstring injury early this year training has Diversity and Inclusion Jul 19, 2022 musings & amateur radio I’m still thinking about Dan Romanchik KB6NU’s post about inclusion and amateur radio regarding one club having a chaplain and starting meetings My Bridgecom BCR-220 story Jul 19, 2022 amateur radio In November, 2019 I bought a Bridgecom BCR-220 repeater and duplexer to set up at my home. I wanted to learn about repeaters, and owning one and More NVIS Thinking Jul 19, 2022 amateur radio & NVIS I think the idea of different NVIS antenna designs for different situations is pretty solid, so I have been thinking about parameter ranges for Bob Becker's 2022 Badwater 135 Finish Jul 14, 2022 ultrarunning & musings “The point is reached when fatigue drives us back into ourselves, into those secluded parts of our souls that we discover only under times of such Inclusion Jul 11, 2022 amateur radio & musings Dan KB6NU opines on this reddit post about an amateur radio club that starts meetings with the group chaplain offering an invocation: Hello, newbie Compelled Speech Jul 6, 2022 musings “My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.” - William Penn When I was in second grade, I got in Marathon Support - Runners Jun 28, 2022 ultrarunning One of the best parts of doing marathon support recently was the chance to see and encourage runners. The aid station I where I was deployed was at Next page