I think my next pair of running shoes is going to have the individual toe-holding things.
1: I saw a guy running in those Five Finger things today. He was more ambitious than we were, as we hiked laziliy around a dam built in 1947. He cycled and then went for a run in the weirdo shoes.
I need to get back into running, but am worried about my knee. I've been considering a couple of different plans: in one plan, I get some Nike Frees and just go for it, and hope it works. In the other plan, I go see some kind of doctor-type person to ask what's up with my knee. I'm definitely closing in on the first plan as a better option.
Without knowing what year in the dam was built, comment 2 wouldn't have popped the way it did.
I did some bicycle cycling today. It was swell. I wore my new cold-ish weather bicycle cycling garment, a pair of (god help me) wool bib knickers.
Wool bib knickers! I own a thing called that!
I've been enjoying the hell out of these.
I just got back from double-wheel bicycle cycling. Beat that.
Hm. The shoes in 6 seem like they might be even funner than Nike Frees.
5: Cold there? It was mid-60s here. I fell in the water slightly, and it was almost refreshing.
9: it was in the high 40s/low 50s here, but it was foggy, and the kind of fog that has distinct droplets. I was glad to be wearing wool.
8: A Nike rep I know recently told me of his secret love for NBs.
Yesterday was insane here, in the mid '60s. I wish days like that this time of year didn't make me so vaguely, existentially nervous.
I just got back from double-wheel bicycle cycling. Beat that.
Okay.
11: I love NB on principle, since they're local, but the regular running shoes seem to be designed for people with a much more pronated gait than mine. If I could get some NBs that worked for me I would I think be pretty excited.
Wool bib knickers! I own a thing called that!
Plenty more where that came from, I assume.
Sometimes it's like I live in a different world from you guys.
Dear me. Anyhow, no, these are modern and technical or whatever and useful. But they are in fact wool, bibs, and knickers.
17: I would say you should get a "you guys! Alaska is really cold!" t-shirt, but you'd never get to wear it. Perhaps a parka?
Without knowing what year in the dam was built, comment 2 wouldn't have popped the way it did.
Perhaps a parka?
Maybe some wool bib knickers.
Cement, water, and a history of displacing the poor. That park is a triple threat.
21: I was going to say you probably want some full wool bib tights, but as it turns out the company that made mine only makes knickers. Maybe you should check out these instead. Also, you should pick up one of these if you're going to be doing much serious cycling around there. Really, you should pick up one of those anyhow, because they're awesome, and I want to know somebody that has the faintest need to own one.
I'm so very good at making links. Imagine the first "these" in 24 went here.
24: People really do ride those around here, and in fact the dealer locator on that website shows five locations in Anchorage. I don't think it's really for me, though.
24: I always see those in the windows of the bike shops, but I never see anyone riding them. People around here take a perverse pride in riding regular bikes around in the winter doing anything to prove that we are tougher than other people when it comes to cold weather.
If you aren't trail riding those are overkill, even in Alaska. They're really for back-country riding in deep, deep snow. People use them for the bike version of the Iditarod, and such-like.
28: Yeah, I mean, that's the sort of thing people use them for. You do occasionally see people ride bikes around town in winter, but they use more normal bikes. The guy in 14 is an example.
He's more than an example. He's a beacon to us all.
Say, teo, I assume you've read this?
I haven't yet, but it's one of the books my supervisor gave me to read.
You should also read Into the Wild. I can't imagine it would teach you anything useful, but it was a very good story.
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I finally hung art in my house today, after moving in months ago. I have a lot of art all of a sudden.
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Certainly colder than that here last weekend.
Sifu, get on a plane, you can ride one of those up the Rattlesnake right now. Or the day after tomorrow.
I have a lot of art all of a sudden.
This seems... suspicious.
38: Been in this house for over 3 years and all the art that's up was up in the first year. All the rest of the art (way too much to hang, really) is just sitting around.
I got a pair of NB for 25% off on Friday at Nordstrom Rack. They were very cheap! And US-made! And they fit my feet better than other athletic shoes!
Sifu, get on a plane, you can ride one of those up the Rattlesnake right now. Or the day after tomorrow.
That does seem like an excellent idea. And then the end of the semester's all like "oh no you don't either."
38: It's just crap I've accumulated from the road, like a particular bass-drum head we were using for awhile with Band X and original watercolor artwork made for Band Z's album, but framed.
34 -- I was going to suggest that somewhat dated book about my friend Etok, but I see that Greg Palast has written something new.
37: Certainly colder than that here last weekend.
Not in the middle of the afternoon.
Oh, right, I went to Bozeman on Saturday -- where it seems to have been a little warmer at the airport, but not at the stadium, I can tell you that.
23: Cement, water, and a history of displacing the poor.
Yes, I like this line from Wikipedia: The personal sacrifices of an earlier generation provide nature-centered recreational opportunities today. But as long as Stanley enjoyed his romp with its romantic-comedyesque pratfalls in the water and all. I'm sure Hugh Grant could not have done it better.
45: I did it for the Monacan people. My Blackfoot ancestors looked down approvingly from the heavens.
The personal sacrifices of an earlier generation provide nature-centered recreational opportunities today.
This is like the perfect motto for the Park Service. Much better than Experience Your America™.
46: The contrast between the way the Wikipedia article describes the departure of the Monacans and that of the later white (?) farmers is interesting, and revealing.
that of the later white (?) farmers
White, yep. Appalachian Americans, yo.
I assumed so at first, but then I realized it didn't actually say.
NB Minimus
I hadn't seen these before. Aren't they just complete knock-offs of these?