Archive for January, 2008

In praise of the sports photographer

Having recently decided to re-post the pictures from last years Thrill in the Hills race, I recalled some things that I had forgot: Wow, I took a lot of pictures. Over 1000 of them, actually. It takes a long time to go through them all. A real long time. It takes almost as long to [...]

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It was a winter wonderland, for a couple hours

The snow came and went. Up the street: The front yard:

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Weekend Roundup and pictures

Saturday, the Runners Fit group heading back out to the Elachee Nature Center for our run before going to Sweet Escapes for their Runners Special breakfast. Overall, the run was good…we started with a really big (in my opinion) hill that took my breath away along the West Lake Trail. I didn’t really get it [...]

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I was a disbeliever

Two things have happened in the last couple weeks that have really made me say “whoah”. First, back in December when I was given a gift certificate for a new bowling ball, everyone said “get a fingertip ball. Your average will go up overnight”. Yeah, right, I said…how much difference can a ball make my [...]

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Group run in the wood

This morning the Runners Fit group headed off to Elachee/Chicopee Woods for a group run in the woods. 13 of us braved the cold (31 degrees) for this grand adventure. After the caravan over there, I headed in one direction with my camera while everyone else ran the other way. (I know there is a [...]

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Newfound Fame, almost

After my last post about running at the end of the year, I passed it on to Ryan while trying to find some email addresses. He read it, and was impressed and suggested I do a article for his monthly newsletter. So, for the second time in my life, someone has read something of mine [...]

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