Random Past Posts
Leadville 100 Trail Run – A View from the Sidelines As a spectator watching the 30-hour Leadville Trail 100 Run last weekend, I watched the 4 a.m. pre-dawn start on Saturday, put in a very long day along the course, got a nice dinner and a full night's sleep, then More...
Bangkok 2015: “The King and I” at the Grand Palace One of a handful of posts from a couple of days' stopover in Bangkok, Thailand. If you’re a Yul Brenner fan, you’ll be interested to know that King Bhumobol Adulyadej of Thailand -- a.k.a. Rama IX -- is More...
Tenacious D (G?) My neice, Grace Parker, whose Fort GIbson Junior High basketball team never lost a game, recently made her debut with the high school varsity and JV teams. They won both games, but her uncle's indoor no-flash sports photography wasn't very More...
These City Walls: Dubrovnik I have run, I have crawledI have scaled these city wallsThese city walls That U2 song lyric ran through my head a lot when I was in Dubrovnik. I did a lap and a half of the 500-year-old city More...
Fat Chuck’s Revenge Today was my first-ever mountain bike race. I even bought a (one-day) racing license. Ned Barnett made me do it; it gave him one more opportunity to demonstrate his biking superiority over me. The race was called "Fat Chuck's Revenge" More...