On today’s podcast I am joined by Mr. Fit Misfortune, the absolute legend on the popular fitness tracker Strava, who posts daily about his epic struggles as he endures his four month workout streak. No matter the obstacle, he completes his workout. Mr. Fit Misfortune has several thousand followers who are exhilarated each day by … Continue reading Mr. Misfortune, The Absolute Legend of Strava
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Johan Jakob Astor – Lich King
Johann Jakob Astor is the most famous Lich King in the United States as of writing this. Once a powerful merchant with a monopoly that stretched from coast to coast he settled down after death in the city bearing his name, Astoria Oregon. Let me stop you right there. Right before you ask me something … Continue reading Johan Jakob Astor – Lich King
The Perfect Burb
sub·urb ˈsəbərb/ noun an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one. Fact – the scariest of all suburbs have all the streets named for trees. The suburb which I now occupied had only tree named streets. And there were only two housing plans used. The one story suburban ranch style and the two … Continue reading The Perfect Burb
The Stolen Bridge
Well, I suppose it had to happen but it was a bad time for the bridge to get stolen. The Astoria-Megler bridge was, if anything, over built. On the sky line it’s very imposing, unless it’s raining and unfortunately it’s almost always raining, but normally it is very grand. It doesn’t go anywhere. It was billed as “the bridge to nowhere” which seemed great at the time all six miles of it spanning the great Columbia River from Astoria Oregon to the very grim Dysmal Nitch.
BLACK LAKE 2017
The Black Lake obstacle run is the hardest in the United States. People show up for it completely unaware they’re about to take part in it and mill around until shoved out onto the path and someone – usually an older rather robust person from Dallas Texas shouts, “GO” directly into their face. Some need a shove to get going.
Runners Insomnia & Fix
A lot of athletes suffer from insomnia and then are told they should just “work out” in order to fix it. It’s impossible to find a decent health article online about this so I wrote one. Eat green foods. There you go. That’s all that’s in this article. Eat greens.
Comorbidity – Is Santa Safe?
Christmas Day 2020 Despite naysayers pointing out that Santa Clause aka St.Nick aka Kris Kringle was in too much danger to deliver presents this year due to a plethora of comorbid medical conditions that puts him at extreme risk to catch and subsequently die from Covid-19: Presents Are Here! Boom Thus once again Santa is … Continue reading Comorbidity – Is Santa Safe?
Mandalorians Save Christmas
“We have a lot of bugs in the system Bob, what are we going to do?”
Coffee Corner
It’s good, it’s coffee, it’s coffee corner! The coffee corner has proudly added two more chairs raising indoor seating to a capacity of four. With the cooler weather, Max, the coffee cat will be inside more to visit and take up space in the window. An additional bird feeder has been added to the outdoor … Continue reading Coffee Corner
Duathlon Event Scheduled!
The Sir William Wallace Uncivilized Freedom Virtual Duathlon is scheduled to take place March 27th of 2021 in Dysmal Nitch. Participants will have a choice of: 5k run, 25 mile bike ride, 10k run or 1 mile run, 15 mile bike ride, 5K run