VHTRC Women’s Half Marathon

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Results

‘Martha, are you running the race?’ Toni asked incredulously.  As of a week ago, I hadn’t yet signed up.

‘Good question.’  It was 8:13 am.  The race started at 8:30.  I was still torn. I wanted to run, but my poor body had […]

Fool’s Gold 50 mile

Pony, MT

August 23, 2014

The Fool’s Gold 50 mile in Pony, Montana was everything RD Alex Papadopoulis had promised: big mountains, sweeping grasslands, open skies.  Only there were a couple things Alex hadn’t mentioned when he came to WUS back in April to tout the race.  First […]

Luray Triathlon, Olympic Distance (1500m swim, 40 km bike, 10km run)

Nifty results analysis by Aaron

August 16, 2014

Luray, VA

When Aaron and I started dating, his ‘TRI GEEK’ vanity plate was almost a deal breaker.  I had known a smattering of triathletes, and by all accounts they were the crazies: the […]

Aaron and I decided that his parents’ visit with us in Canaan Valley would be a perfect opportunity to try out the Aaron’s big lens for detailed nature photography. At a nearby marsh, nature cooperated beautifully, and we were inundated with goldfinches, green herons, cedar waxwings, bobolinks, bluebirds, what we believe was a northern harrier, […]

The domesticated cat is an absolute miracle of evolution.  Cats in the wild are fully solitary creatures (except the outlier lion).  Tigers, leopards, bobcats, lynxes, cougars, jaguars, the Middle Eastern wildcat from which domestic cats are believed to be descended…..all these lead solitary existences once they leave their litter-mates.

So while it makes complete sense […]