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TL; DR: I’m in the process of migrating old posts from my three existing blogs into this blog. I’m also starting to write again.
I’ve been searching for a blogging platform that fits my needs for the better part of a decade. I started off on Blogger, now Blogspot, which worked, but was clunky. From there, I checked out a variety of other solutions, eventually settling on Ghost. Ghost wasn’t perfect, though, and I wanted a solution where I could write and publish straight from my computer. I tried out Wordpress, which integrates with Word, but writing posts in Word isn’t really where my heart is.






Weekly Review - 22 May 2016
Tuesday: Ran the third race of the 2016 AdiRUNdack Trail Series
Wednesday: Light floor work: yoga, stretching, PT exercises (quads), push-ups.
Thursday: 1.8mi at an aerobic pace. Knee was hurting toward the end. I wonder if it’s the shoes?
Friday: Bleeeeerch
Saturday: Yard work
Sunday: 5 miles in Skidmore’s North Woods. I needed a hill, and didn’t feel like driving all the way up to Moreau. I contemplated another go at Lincoln Mountain State Forest, but then I remembered that it’s spring turkey hunting season, and it’s highly likely that numerous people would be hunting up there.


Weekly Review - 25 Apr 2016
Monday: Back in the saddle. 30 minutes around MAF target heart rate, on a beautiful but chilly night. Inspired by Boston and a post I stumbled across about running just to run, I forced myself out the door.
Thursday: I really didn’t want to go out again, but I did. Another 30 minutes near MAF target heart rate. I ran from one development into another, and the moment I crossed in to the other development, I started feeling precipitation. Nothing significant, just little wispy drops; we call it “spitting”. The moment I left that neighborhood, it stopped. Odd.


Walking upon the Turtle's Back - 14 June 2015
Earlier this month, my friend Ken and I headed down to check out more of the section of the Shawangunk Ridge that had been burned. I had gone for a short hike two weeks before, and I was curious to see more of this transitional landscape. We parked off of Ferguson road, at a small parking lot for Wurtsboro Ridge State Forest, then headed out on the little used, yellow-blazed, connector trail to the Long Path. The trail meandered for a while, leading us past a rather unexpectedly large waterfall in the middle of nowhere, until we finally made our way over to the rocky remains of an old road. This lead us to the Long Path/Shawangunk Ridge Trail [LP/SRT], and then we started climbing back up to Ferguson Road.

AdiRUNdack Trail Series - Race #1 - 5 May 2015
Last night was the first night of the AdiRUNdack Trail Series, a series of four mid-week 5K races, put on by the Adirondack Runners, a friendly running club that operates in the Glens Falls, NY area. Rebecca Smith does an excellent job of directing the race. The field was much larger than last year, with 146 people running in the first race. Alex Benway won it for the men’s field, in 17:03, and Tyra Wynn won it for the women’s field, coming in at 21:20.