Week Ending Jan 29 - Mon - 7 miles (1,900') easy. Soderberg - Rock - Wathan - Spring Creek - Falls - home long. Tues - AM: 8 miles of intervals with Jane's group at the cemeter...

Kudlahk – Home of the Elk - “And, what do you call the abstract? The search for freedom, freedom to perceive, without obsessions, all that’s humanly possible.” Don Juan Matus answer...

Basic phenomenons of wave physics - *Domestic goodness:* Stirring green and orange lentils until they swirl, boiling in the pot, gazing into the murky maelstrom as it spins and bubbles addi...

Week Summary: Jan 23 - 29 - 1-23-2012 *Mon-AM: 1:22, 2800' ~ Green Mt.* Up and down Third access. Boom, running. Ran the runnable terrain on this route (including to and from Chautauq...

Ben ticks-off Southern XC title - It was elder brother’s turn to shine this weekend, as Ben Tickner won the Southern Cross Country Championships in Brighton. Over the last few weeks it has...

From the Archives,pt.7, The Flutie Factor - It may seem odd that I would run an article on an American football player but as you will soon see,what follows is something that we can all relate to and...

here we go ... - The trip to the physio provided some excellent news.  The stress fracture to my left calcaneous has fully healed now and the achilles tendinosis in the same ...

The Clif Cookbook -

AtlanticRow AlastairHumphreys.com – 4th phonecast - Listen to my latest phonecast Related posts: AtlanticRow AlastairHumphreys.com – 2nd phonecast AtlanticRow AlastairHumphreys.com – 3rd phonecast Experiment...

No 6: Bourne Blunder - An undulating route to the south of Grantham, the Bourne Blunder starts and finishes in Bourne Woods and takes in a multitude of charming villages, the G...

Is Life Art? - Have you ever sat next to a pond and watched ducks? A nice Summers day. It's warm. The sun's shining. The water looks so still and inviting. Some of the duc...

The Barefoot Kilimanjaro Challenge - *The Barefoot Kilimanjaro Challenge* Only 3 days to go before I jet off to Kilimanjaro to tackle Africa's highest summit, and the world's highest free-sta...

Devil's Burdens Relay - Route on Garmin Connect | Overall results | Fastest legs My 12th consecutive Devil's Burdens, and my first attempt at running since becoming a father 12 da...

Several Tidbits - After a two week vacation to Costa Rica I'm back in Colorado and getting back in to my Iditarod Trail Invitational preparation. From now until the race (wh...

Everything You Wanted to Know About Fats (But were afraid to ask!) - It's great to hear more and more people embracing the many nutritional concepts I've discussed over the past year in my blog. Nobody seems to dispute that...

2011 TOTALS - RUNNING = 1415 miles ; 207,000 feet ascent ; 200 runs ; 17 races ; 288 hoursCYCLING = 1649 miles ; 102,000 feet ascent ; 42 cycles; 120 hoursGYM = 58 hours...

Speedgoat Odds, Bandera 100k - OK, so this will be the first of many “Speedgoat Odds” predictions for races in 2012. The Bandera 100k looks like a good start, so here we go….. 1. Dave ...

Inflation and religious economics - Happy new year everyone, as an early treat for 2012, I've put forward a little of the political thinking behind our current 5% rate of inflation. It's the ...

The Year in Bad Self-Portraits - Dedicated to Marjon, who takes the best self-portraits in the world. I still have a long ways to go. But lots of good memories in these shots, as scary as...

These Guardian / Independent stories are dodgy. Traps in data journalism. - Here’s an interesting problem with data analysis in general, and so, by extension, data journalism: you have to be careful about assuming that the numbers ...

Ending AJW's Blog - I started this blog as a place for me to write race reports and to reflect on running and racing. For the past four and half years it has been a great plac...

TNF50 end of season - I’ll say one thing about ultras – when things don’t go asplanned, you generally have a long time to think about it before getting to thefinish line. I w...

Team Krypton and the Kryptonettes Triumph Again! - Well done Team K and congrats to all those who competed in 2012 and in particular to the members of the winning teams in the Runfurther Ultra Running Serie...

The sh*tting trowel - Wild camping is made up of a series of activities that either make or break your enjoyment of the trip. One of my first trips was a cycling trip around th...