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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 17, 2015 - 02:53pm PT
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Kinda hot to be doing 100 milers. IMO.
The National 24-hour Run championships were in San Diego in 2005. I had no idea the event was going on. I ran past and saw all these folks running around in about a 1-mile loop.
Came back the next day and they were still there.
I was invited to "come back next year". I didn't.
There do not seem to be any photos of this event. Strange.
This is more like it. Not zBrown, not Hambone.
Goggins lives in CV. He's an interesting story.
Goggins came in 37th, but this isn't from the day. The winner did 148.12 miles.
http://runny-legs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Dr.-Dribble-Mile-11.jpg
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 17, 2015 - 04:00pm PT
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runny-legs isn't responding. maybe they ran out of time?
I found this to subsitutoot. That is what you do when you are in a relay or a crew race. You sub when it's your turn, but you sit and toot your horn till it comes up.
http://www.runwifeyrun.com/category/running/
My old friend Jim Shirley was big on running in Box Canyon where he lived. Everyone was mellow about runners in that neighborhood, but not their dogs. He took to carrying a chain looped around his hand to keep them from nipping his New Balances.
I quit smoking once when I was 34. I lasted three weeks. Ike and I went out running and by mile two I knew I needed a nicotine fix. As we passed his place I peeled off, got my bike, and went to the Big T for a pack of Pall Malls.
Today is very smokey outside, like yesterday. As the 4th hour approaches it is 104 degrees and no rain in sight. HA HA HA.
I believe I'll go take an endurance shower.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 17, 2015 - 04:16pm PT
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I started semi-seriously on the dread tobacco in junior high. Then off & on through the first year of college.
Along came Jones the Surgeon General and issued his report. Fortunately, I was able to quit, except for some run ins with the dread marijuana.
I still wish I had had the where_with_all to go after big tobacco in my mom's case.
AS you know, COPD really sucks.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 17, 2015 - 04:50pm PT
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I saw your post about David Goggins on the pull-ups thread. He is a brute.
Gnome, you need him for your mentor.
Who's your life coach nowadays? Give him "the Donald" and tell him to hit the road.
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"Training? I don't train."--Libby Sauter the day we met
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 17, 2015 - 10:26pm PT
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hey there, say... thanks for the share, will go and hear it... :)
:) was in the yard, all day... kind of pioneering, by planting, :))
happy good eve, to all!!
heard them... i really always loved the 'leaning' one...
:) can remember all the times, it held so true... :) amen...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 18, 2015 - 06:49am PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 18, 2015 - 07:11am PT
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The first day of high school looms. An urban nightmare of a place but what can you do?
Years of sweating it, . . .bringing up a well behaved and innocent child.
yikes, she is still so young, and now, to throw her into the culture that is. . . well , base.. . . ??
still achey, is that how sore is spelt. I am lucky that I did rip anything,
I'm at haul bag counter-weight weight, aid climbing second,
not fit for free climbing weight = NFFFCW!
paying for it still two dayzz shucks its a humbling.
sigh,, z
sigh,
Paying for kids programs for the fall, not collecting ducats, not running a kids program my own self.
Not shilling climbing as the greatest thing, fully title 9, very female friendly.
My small rock, hell; paradise stays pristine
sigh,,,
seems a shame from such flames and smoke come such sun shots!
The burning lands are memorialized in hues of colors as rich as what has burned.
sigh,.
there are some haikus there , , somewhere.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 18, 2015 - 03:25pm PT
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Was just looking at BhuddaStalin's thread about Karl Hammer.
My WAS (Word Association Syndrome) brings forth
Hammer > Hamm > Hambone > ham-hands > Bermingham > Mouse > hampster > dumpster > trash-talking > humble > Hammer.
We tend to have a lot of "old hammers" here on the ST forum.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 18, 2015 - 04:02pm PT
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Likewise, I was checking out the arborism thread.
The City of Merced maintains its own trees with municipal employees. They always show up on Saturdays to barbor the fan palms at City Hall and the date palms on N Street.
I have often wished that they would trim up the N Street palms yearly. They don't. It means that the Clark Range is obscured from my vantage point here in my room. Nothing to be done but to work around it. It is challenging as a result.
Tree Buts
But it's still the same old, same old view.
But as I click from frame to frame,
I'm glad to have had what I have seen,
All the same.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 18, 2015 - 06:40pm PT
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Kinda reminds me of The Tree People. I planted one of my sets of ten trees from the Arbor Society in pots. They grew and prospered but, I was out of space on my lot so I offered them to The People. They weren't interested. We accept cash only.
So are they the Anti Tree People?
I found homes for most and J. Appleseeded the rest.
I do not donate to The Tree People.
rip off of the people's culture?
http://www.treepeople.org/sites/default/files/Visit-Us---Yurt-Village.jpg
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 18, 2015 - 09:24pm PT
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What is the etymology of entomology?
It would be nice to know, but Golly Gee,
Tree to one one out of tree don't know.
Weed like to believe it ain't so, Joe.
Entil we meet again...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2015 - 01:06am PT
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Still cannot find the dream boat, the arms of Morpheus, or restful sleep, sleep, sleep. I abhor sleep aids and am trying some chocolate mix (no milk) right now. Beats coffee at this hour.
Maybe I ought to try meditation. My friend Waldo did. He claims to have found himself using TM.
Frikken zees!!!!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 19, 2015 - 01:25am PT
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Zzzzz, less sleep here too also not to start but I must find some before to long
That sweet slumber, not knitted mind crisp but not tired, sleep must come before the sun.
On the rise is a drive into the bowels of Jersey.
For your information looking up words that had rise to be before
Latin died keeps me up .
Reading the fool advice the climbing fool
I've attracted on the other Site (mp) that puts me to sleep.
I can't tell yet what to think or do or if to spew here
about his rise through a stiffly metered out intro to the curve.
What ?
The guy is getting scared, of heights, at like sixty feet.
Not fully strong-sighted, wearing glasses that I need to have a look through.
I need to minimize if I can not monetize, teaching the ropes
to one scared of heights, is work, not play or climbing ,per say.
Absolutely, twenty feet up can kill you, but his eyes get wide
and his insistance at knowing how high up he is, is drama,
that he needs to push past, shut up and climb.
Just don't get me started, I need to find those dreams of frolicking in my twenties. . . . .Sigh!?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2015 - 01:45am PT
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Athena. She sits atop the courthouse, maybe 100' up there.
She happens to be made from redwood, spear and all.You should really be trying to deal with Greek, not Latin. It's more boring.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2015 - 02:46am PT
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I'm up.
And I've been looking at Europeans on sandstone and limestone.
Are you back in the USSA or still in Poland?
Post up a good pic of your trip, if you would.
Sounds like you are healthy lately and that's great!
I visited the Valley on the seventh. Here are a few shots I've not posted.
MCR--upper part of Pillar of Frenzy.
LCR skyline.
MCR above The Flakes & Gunshight Gully.
Hope I'm healthy enough for the Facelift & see you there if I am, my friend.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2015 - 05:21am PT
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Old friend of mine, Julio Guerra, is hooked up with a fine lady artist and musicalist named Nedra Russ, living near Plymouth, CA, last I knew.
Julio is a great guy, used to hang out and play guitar with Mark McAllister, one of the original Flames. Bluegrass is his thing now.
Julio and Nedra have been writing songs together and gigging with friends, too.
He posts as Julioinglasses.
(All photos by Nedra Russ.)
[Click to View YouTube Video]The burnt-out truck before the fire.
Published on Mar 16, 2013
Chasing the falling leaves of Autumn's wane; a soothing, contemplative, journey in Eastern Alpine County down Highway 88 and up Highway 89. Film by Nedra Russ set to music by Nedra and Julio.
[Click to View YouTube Video]One for the road (that would be Hwy 88 or Hwy 89--your choice).
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