• Uhh, Yep. • [1 MIN READ] It’s easy to forget something during race prep. We’ve all done it. One year while driving to the Frostbite 5 Miler I realized I’d forgotten my bib. Thankfully, Wife was able and willing to drive it over in time for me to clock an official race. It’s gotten … More Forgetful? (#132: 6/24/23 RUN REPORT)
• Laughing because we can • [1 MIN READ] One of the traditions of JRC’s GGR is the weekly attendance photo. Sometimes it’s purely functional and not necessarily creative. Other times, especially thanks to digital technology, it can be functional, clever, and amusing. At least in my opinion. Take last week’s shot(s) that I composited … More Masterful Photography Because of Technology (#211: 2023’06’21’W)
• Where do we take it? • [2½ MIN READ] No one wishes each other Happy Juneteenth. Not in the spaces where I hover. And I have 4 Black neighbors within 3 houses on all sides of me. Fair, one of them has a speech aphasia that developed in her later years, but that’s beside … More A Juneteenth Greeting
• Developing a voice • [2 MIN READ] On Monday, the 19th of June 2023, I woke up feeling compelled to reach out to a few close Black friends by saying Happy Juneteenth. One, a mere day before on Sunday had texted me a warm Happy Father’s Day greeting. Another had sent me a considerate … More Juneteenth
• Finding new comfort zones • [2½ MIN READ] Running is not only great physically, but also socially. It’s given me opportunities to interact with people of all stripes in spaces where I wouldn’t otherwise. As a practice, I started saying hi to people right from the start (we’re talking in 2011 as a middle-aged … More New Communities
• Recognize the different ones in use • [1½ MIN READ] Conversations and collaboration are prone to going haywire when participants are naïve to or ignorant of the ways they and others are engaging together. In politics, conversations about partisanship often overlook the reality that ideological considerations can shape conviction independent of party membership. In … More A Consideration of Angles of Perspective
• Cerebrun effort and more • [2½ MIN READ] TONIGHT [INVITATION] Forecast says 82° with 100% chance of CtC being at Jenkintown Running Company to join the masses yearning to run free tonight (see Cerebrun for more).* 6/8/2022, W, 6:30 p.m., RUN REPORT Having just run our usual Sunset 5K route for the actual Jenkintown … More Exactly What Exclusive Group Are We Referencing? (#156: 6/15/2022, Weds)
• Permission granted to waffle • [1 MIN READ] The forecast for last Saturday and Sunday was absolutely dismal at 30-70% chance of rain for a solid 48 hours and sub-50° temps. As far as degrees of appeal for conducting a Shawmont long run in certain heat-sapping sogginess, it virtually zeroed them all out. I … More Plenty of ARGHuing (#65: 5/29/21 RUN REPORT)
• Oh you mean those degrees? • [½ MIN READ] Shawmont Running Club offers several inviting pluses every week: a challenging typical distance (14 miles), a mid-run threshold effort (Shawmont Avenue), and other like-minded crazy runners. ‘Degrees of appeal’ I call those pluses. The more degrees of appeal an effort has, the more inviting that … More Advanced Degrees (#59: Published in 4/17/21 RUN REPORT)
• As a topic on this website • [3 MIN READ] Underneath all of my writing is an angle on the topic at hand. Website-creation tools like WordPress make it possible to organize such content. These organizational tools have names like Categories and Tags. It’s up to me as the website creator to decide what … More A Composition of Faith
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