I have seen postings on this study circulating for a couple of months. This study illustrates how a sedentary lifestyle can impact long term mobility. It contains a series of images comparing the lean muscle mass in the cross section of a human leg between sedentary person and a triathlete. Now on the two year anniversary of leaving the hospital for a severe illness (see previous post), I want to add my own testimonial. ...Read the rest of this post...
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Tongariro Northern Circuit
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Almost Running Again
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Organic Coffee Farm in Nicaragua
Monday, November 07, 2011
Isla Juan Venado Nature Reserve
Saturday, October 08, 2011
Cerro Negro Volcano
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks
Monday, August 22, 2011
Bighorn Sheep Near Many Glacier
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Leon, Nicaragua
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
White Sands National Monument
Notable Archived Posts
September 30, 2010
Buenos Aires
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Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
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Running Saved My Life
May 06, 2010
Ultramaraton Fuego y Agua Race Report
The Calzado de Ometepe Kids 5k in Nicaragua was a charity event held in conjunction the Ultramaraton Fuego y Agua allowing the race a way of giving back to the people of the island. This race was for the school children of Ometepe Island to promote fitness and provide shoes for the children.
Last December, I arrived in Managua in the early afternoon after an overnight flight from Buenos Aires via Miami after 3 weeks in South America. 
I have put together a summary of over 40 of my best pictures for this year which can be seen below. 
I traveled to New York to run the marathon a couple of weeks ago. I put myself in the lottery to gain entry early this year before I had decided what I wanted to 
A couple of months ago, and two weeks after the Jemez 50k, I raced in the Hawaii Honu Ironman 70.3 triathlon on the big island. 
Last month I visited Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii. The first day’s visit I was with friends and we stopped at several of the overlooks to see the Kilauea Caldera and overlooks of the Kilauea Iki crater, and later I came back on my own for some pictures.
I was expecting Death Valley National Park to be all flat desert and sand dunes, and so I was surprised to find much more variety of terrain throughout the park. There were salt flats below sea level next to 11,000 ft mountains, sand dunes, and hilly regions with interesting desert colors in the rock formations.
Several of us met Thursday to fly via Dallas to Albuquerque for the Jemez 50 mile or 50k Trail runs. I was in the 50k. It turned out to be the worst day to fly.
I visited for a few days in the Davis Mountains of West Texas
My tour of some state and national parks in the western US began with a stopover in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
This picture is from the celebration in D.C. around President Clinton's inauguration in 1993. I was 
I went to Palo Duro Canyon outside of Amarillo, Texas, for a trail run. The canyon, sometimes called the Grand Canyon of Texas is 
Last March (2008), I took a trip to Big Bend National Park. Just me and my camera. It has been awhile since I took a trip focused on photography.
Earlier this year in May, I took a trip to Peru with a several friends I know from the Rogue trail running programs. The trip was excellently run by the tour company IncaRunners. 
The remainder of the trip included a visit to the Everest base camp on the Chinese side, and drive through Nepal to Kathmandu.
As I approach the 1-year anniversary of this trip, it seemed time to come back to finish the report for the second week before the details slip from my mind. 
I visited Los Angeles for a weekend. I saw the Body Worlds exhibit (recommended) and also did the Malibu Creek 25K. The Malibu Creek trail run was in Malibu Creek State Park just outside Los Angeles. The route ran through areas used in the filming of the television show M*A*S*H. The run was organized by 
I completed the Cancun Ironman 70.3 Triathlon. Apparently races of this distance are no longer officially called “Half-Ironman” distance triathlons, but instead are branded as “Ironman 70.3” triathlons. The six of us who were racing
I went to Lake Tahoe for the Tahoe Rim Trail 50k. I tried to save some vacation time by flying out of Austin on Friday evening after work and returning on 
I joined a 2-week tour through China, Tibet, and Nepal. It started out in Beijing, and then took a 2-day train to Lhasa, Tibet. After a few days in Lhasa we traveled for the 2nd week in 4-wheel drive SUV’s across Tibet, visiting 
I went out to Guadelupe Mountains National Park in west Texas for a weekend of long runs across the park with 25 runners from the Rouge Trail running programs or from HCTR. We drove out on Thursday, leaving at 6:30 am and arriving around 3pm. The first night our cook fixed up a meal with choice of grilled salmon or
Report of Shiner G.A.S.P bike ride and Maze 30k
The Austin Marathon this year had a new sponsor and a new course. At the start, I started off slow up the first hill on South Congress. Quite a few people passed me here including the 9:45 group. I paused near the 2 mile marker to remove my throwaway long pants. Then I passed 
The March issue of American Fitness magazine published one of my photographs taken during the 2006 Pikes Peak Marathon.
The KXAN tv station has been using a picture of me running last year's Austin Marathon as a background image for graphics in their coverage of this year's marathon. No doubt a tribute to my awesome athletic performances ;) 
Last week I ran the Bandera 25K trail run. There were also 50K and 100K runs. I drove out to Bandera the day before. I got there just as dinner started. There was a large mess tent that fit a couple of hundred and we had pasta for dinner. 
After 3 weeks of work in Delhi, I had one week of vacation in India. Originally, I had looked into options to visit areas near the base of the Himalayas, but many of the tours had started to shut down in winter. Then I looked into tours through the Kerala backwaters, but I had waited too long and several tour
This is the story of an old trip, posted after someone asked for details. This was a 2-week independent itinerary arranged by Amazon Adventures. The tour operator worked out my transportation between cities, and arranged either for a guide or for me to join a local day tour in each city. 
On July 16, 2006, I ran the Barr Trail Mountain Race in Manitou Springs, Colorado. Twenty-three runners from the Rogue training group in Austin travelled to run the race, and most stayed a few days for additional training runs out of Barr Camp 
On June 17, I ran Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, MN. Grandma’s Marathon was not originally in my race plan for the year. My focus was to be first on the Freescale Austin Marathon, and then on the Pike’s Peak Marathon. But my parents decided to host a family gathering around this race 
In August of 2005, I ran the Pikes Peak Ascent, (13.2 miles) that runs up the face of Pikes Peak mountain. Race Reports:
