I Hate Running and You Can Too on Bookshop I Hate Running and You…
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Friday Inspiration 423
I have a quick favor to ask: If you have two minutes, would you help…
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My Favorite Opening Scene Of An Adventure Book
You don’t have much time to grab people’s attention nowadays: This is one of the…
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Friday Inspiration 422
You don’t have to look too far on most social media these days to find…
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The Art Of The Long-Term Bit
I posted the following slides to my Instagram the other day, hoping that a few…
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8,037 days
For a very long time now, I have tried to send my friend Dave a…
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Friday Inspiration 421
Someone told me about the Texas Water Safari a few years ago, and I thought…
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Friday Inspiration 420
I don’t knit, but this is the best thing I’ve seen on a screen this…
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Quit Or Laugh
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Friday Inspiration 419
I don’t want to spoil this, but you really do have to watch until the…
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Friday Inspiration 418
So usually for this newsletter, I try to find a video that’s a) under 10…
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A Shed Of One’s Own
In my many years of writing about adventure, one thing I know for sure is…
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Friday Inspiration 417
The tagline for this is “a movie about discovering the power of the female cycle,”…
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Friday Inspiration 416
This is a couple years old but it’s the first I have actually heard of…
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We Are All Buffalo Bills Fans
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Friday Inspiration 415
This is a super-interesting short film about Canada’s Rogers Pass, weaving together two women’s stories,…
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Friday Inspiration 414
BRIEF BUT IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: I am once again teaching a writing + trail running workshop…
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I Ask A Pro Ultrarunner 87 Questions
I am not that curious about how to get faster as a trail runner, but…
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Make 2024 The Year Of Maximum Enthusiasm
SOME HISTORY AND CONTEXT: I first published this essay in 2012, and every year that…
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Friday Inspiration 413
At first I was wondering if this camera work was going to make me nauseous,…
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Friday Inspiration 412
I think it was that Netflix documentary about social media a few years back where…
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My Year Of Living Vertically
In the pursuit of any goal, we all face a moment of questioning ourselves, sometimes…
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Friday Inspiration 411
This is the last time I’ll mention this in 2023: If you’re in the holiday…
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Friday Inspiration 410
This is such a great film about a group of guys who have been playing…
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Friday Inspiration 409
Many weeks, I spend a couple hours clicking around YouTube and Vimeo looking for The…
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Race Report: Ultra-Trail Cape Town 100K
For a half-second, I thought the naked man crutching toward me on the trail was…
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Friday Inspiration 408
I don’t know how the YouTube algorithm served this up to me, but this film…
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