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An early October Sunday

Posted on October 8, 2024

Spent the morning running out at Mt. Pisgah Arboretum, one of my favorite places. I ran 8.2 miles with 2100 feet of elevation gain (and loss) over two hours. There was fog in the lowlands starting before dark, but the top was clear, and the sunrise was beautiful. I did a “double summit,” where I ran down the backside and back up to the top before finally descending to the car. Then Jonah and I went to a free U of O exhibition baseball game: nice day and a lovely Fall. Headlamp in the fog Sunrise with the Oregon Cascade range in the distance. A bit later, heading down the back side of Mt. Pisgah. It was a quiet, cool, and beautiful morning to…

Categories: baseball, eugene, running, uo

West of the sunrise & Leading Lines

Posted on October 4, 2024

Here are a few photos from this morning . . .I stopped by the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact to grab a coffee on my way to work and decided to take the sky bridge from the Knight Campus to the main campus. The sun was rising and the light was lovely. Plus a memory from high school photography: leading lines. West of the sunrise, looking east from the skybridge. Knight Campus is the glass building on the left and Franklin Boulevard is below. The giant oak tree sits on the north edge of campus with the University of Oregon sign near one of the entrances. Looking back towards Knight Campus from the sky bridge. Yep, leading lines. As I took this photo,…

Categories: campus, oregon, uo

Scorebook & Softball

Posted on April 21, 2024

I’ve been keeping score at baseball and softball games for a long time now – sometime in the 1990s. It was in the early 2000s that I made this scorebook based on a colleague’s husband’s own rendition of one. I bring it to all of my games now. The earliest game in this book from 2008. It is my own small historic chronicle of points in time in my life as I note the people I was with, the place, the weather and anything else unusual that took place during our time in the ballpark. We also went to the UO Women’s Softball game last night on campus with my daughter and a friend of hers and her dad. It was fun. Cheering from…

Categories: eugene, family, friends, nora, softball, sports, uo

Mid-February

Posted on February 12, 2024

It’s been a while . . . . January came and went and now here we are. I am in the middle of a solid training block for the Gorge Waterfalls 50k in mid-April and that feels good. Two months to go and I am slowly extending miles and getting in some hills. Hill work for trail running means trail walking, or “power hiking,” or just plain old, “hiking.” The secret sauce of trail running is that you go long by going slow. At least that is my secret sauce. Speaking of which – there’s sheet-pan salmon to behold as well. Totally tasty and very easy to put together. Cheers – The sunrise from the top of Mt. Baldy near my house. It takes…

Categories: eugene, food, running, uo, winter

EOM (End of Month)

Posted on October 29, 2023

October flew by it seems. I updated my Now page with bullets of some relevant items. A lot happens and is happening: teens, friends, runs, family. All with worry and concern, grief, love, attention, poetry, and prose. I hold it all in my heart these days. Some recent photos below: It was 25 degrees F when we all met up for our run this morning. I’ve missed this group, the Noon Group as we are called. Some of them have been with this group for 50 years, some 30. Me? 6. I’m just a kid. Our weekly Saturday run takes us over the Autzen Footbridge, which connects the UO main campus to the football, soccer, and baseball stadium areas. The river’s warmer-than-air-water was transitioning…

Categories: current events, family, friends, running, seasons, sports, uo