After training for years I just ran my first race.  I have picked trail running since it preserves the knees, unlike running on pavement.  the first race last Saturday, The Navarino Trail Run was great!

I came in around 11 minute miles for the 9.3 mile (15k) race.  A lot of older, really skinny, mostly very unhappy seeming guys beat me.  I need to train more!  Hehey.  But I am not going to get skinny and unhappy to do it.  I noticed some very happy winners too!

Training for the upcoming, 25k run next, in July.  And then the really difficult trail running marathon after that!  (note: these two links are PDFs, but well worth waiting for, great maps with elevation profiles).

Trail running 12 miles per day now, working up to 16 miles, then 20 miles in the end of the weekly training cycle.  Yow.  I take the seventh day off to go in my sweat lodge and into Lake Superior.  It recharges the zen batteries to restore the beath of fire. 

Earth, Air, Water, and Fire.   The Fire heats the rocks (Earth) red hot, the hot rocks turn the Big Lake's Water to steam (Air).  Then one breathes the Lake into ones being. 

Pictures and video soon!  Must join the YouTuber generation with the ancient.  A bridge to the future, if we have one?

On pro-nuke, clean coal, and fuel farming "environmentalists". 

Take note

The most significant fact of American political life over the last three decades is that there is a conservative movement and there has not been a liberal movement. Liberalism, to be sure, has all the component parts that conservatism has: think tanks, lobbying groups, grassroots activists, and public intellectuals. But those individual components, unlike their counterparts on the conservative side, do not see one another as formal allies and don't consciously act in concert.