The rock climbing bug has really bitten me. Not sure why it should: I'm not a great climber, I frustrate my belayers, I have other things I should focus on. But it has. I have been climbing for almost two years kind of continuously now, and I am reasonably comfortable on 5.10s, at least after …

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“Most guys can’t do pink. You do it well, man.” This is a compliment to cherish, coming as it did from a member of the Eastern Mountain Sports adventure racing team, multi-year national champions and the eventual winners of Adventure Rage 2010, during which the comment was made. The occasion for it was my pink …

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So I was an hour or so into the 2009 edition of the December Chill, Infiterra Sports' fun cold-weather race, when yet another person wanted to make a comment on my brand new fabulous pink kayak. I said, "Yeah. Santa got it at a great discount. And ain't nobody ever gonna steal it. Plus, if …

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Very nice Santa Claus -- well, my even nicer wife and her parents -- got me an early Xmas present: a brand new kayak. I got it early because I will need it in The Chill, Infiterra Sports' early December adventure race. My friend Gina and I went to Huron Meadows Metropark yesterday to launch …

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Here is the final installment, including appearance credits, of the Newport Marathon trip vlog.

Here's a vlog from my trip to the Oregon coast with my marathoning buddies Marc and Lorne. Marc is a retired computer nerd from Portland, Lorne is a bureaucrat nerd from Edmonton, and I am a tweedy academic. Wild times are here again.