Seek The Substantial

I’ve run in the winter previously, but never trail running. As an aside, my trail running was one where I never thought that I had a place to run that I didn’t have to drive a long distance to get there. Well, the late part of my summer and this…

Photo by Rap Dela Rea on Unsplash 1. Ever heard of Shirakawa? Me neither. It’s a village in Japan and it is known for being this tranquil village with thatched roof houses and is actually a UNESCO site. But this place has almost become too popular because it is overrun…

Photo by v2osk on Unsplash 1. Whenever I find a new place, the first thing that I think about is what it would be like to go for a run there (or even just a walk) and that thought is no different when I look at photos of Snowdonia, which…

Photo by Paolo Bendandi on Unsplash 1. We’ll get to this in a second, but Catch-22 was set on a small island in Italy called Pianosa. Finding photos of that island is very difficult, but finding photos of Elba Island, which is just east of Pianosa, looks pretty well amazing.…

Photo by Stéphane Juban on Unsplash 1. Ever heard of Seychelles? Me neither. It’s an actual country in Africa. I thought I had heard of them all, but I was wrong about that. The Seychelles islands or the Republic of Seychelles is an archipelago of 115 islands on the east…

This isn’t going to be a particularly long post. I’ve already written about the shoes I ran in this year and what I know about running shoes. But I did want to detail what I did run in 2020. For comparison purposes, I ran 1,065.6 miles in 2019. In 2020,…

Photo by Simon Rae on Unsplash 1. That’s Fassa Valley, Italy, and doesn’t seem real. The mountains are the Dolomites, which are some amazing mountains up that way. The valley is formed by the Avisio River. This is also in the Trentino region of Italy, which is sort of like…

This idea of creating a post about my life in charts really didn’t culminate unit l recently, but since about December 27, 2019, I started tracking me doing push ups. I had a conversation with my brother-in-law about a guy that did 100 push ups for a year. I thought…

Photo by Tom Vining on Unsplash 1. That’s Mount Aso, or a road near Mount Aso, which is the largest active volcano in Japan. Mount Aso is in Southern Japan, and the caldera, which is surrounds the peak is actually quite large, 25 kilometers by 18 kilometers. And Mount Aso…

I had given almost no thought to the different types of shoes and always figured that running shoes were just that. Running shoes were all the same. I am clearly not an expert, but I have, I think, figured out what I am in terms of a running shoes and…