My brother is an airline pilot and sometimes ends up in the PNW when he is on-call. Usually it’s Seattle, and it’s usually on short notice. last time he was there was a couple months ago, but we were booked for the weekend and couldn’t make it up. Well on Thursday morning I got a…
Category: Run
Insomnia Coffee Pastry Run
Insomnia Coffee is a local coffee company with locations in Hillsboro on Baseline/53rd and over in Tannasbourne, plus our personal favorite location in Cannon Beach. Just keep following this guy Today they held a “5K-ish” run (not a race) from the Baseline store to the Tannasbourne store. The entry fees all went to a very…
Lee’s Falls Run
I’d read last summer about a waterfall not too far from “downtown” Cherry Grove. I roughly knew the area because of biking up Patton Valley Rd to the crest of Summit Rd where it intersected with a logging gate. The Oregonian article didn’t give a distance to the falls, only stating that they were about…
Speed
As I was walking across a timed crosswalk last night, something occurred to me. You see I was walking across 4 lanes of traffic, so probably about 80-90 feet of roadway. The crosswalk was timed at 30 seconds and it took me about 13 seconds to cross. Back in High School I ran the 100…
2nd Annual Freedomthon
Ran the 2nd annual Freedomthon on July 4th. Last year this was my first race since moving to Oregon. So now it was a chance to come and do the race again. It was an awesome way to benchmark just over 12 months out here. I ran a much smarter race this weekend compared to…
Luckython 2014
I took part in another Uberthons race on Saturday. This one was the Luckython and was held at the Reserve Golf Club, same place as the Halloweenathon, just a different course. I took part in the 10K just like the Halloweenathon too. The course for this event was on the south side of the golf…
