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  • You know the feeling: You’re running on a trail,  How To Run Uphill

    by brendan on September 14, 2023

    — More stories and illustrations about running in my book, Have Fun Out There Or…

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  • I did a plank every day for 120 consecutive days and here’s what I learned: I do not like doing planks. [check box checked] I did not like doing them before I started this streak, and I do not like them now. My opinion has not changed. [drawing of person doing plank and thinking FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU] I Did A Plank Every Day For 120 Days And Here’s What I Learned

    by brendan on May 25, 2023

    Signed copies of my running books are back in stock and available here: Have Fun…

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  • Standing in our garage the other day, holding onto our 10-foot ladder, I thought: This thing is huge. How did I get it home from the store when I bought it? This Is Not Why These Things Were Invented, But

    by brendan on April 20, 2023

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  • Almost all my friends are either uphill people or downhill people. Are You An Uphill Person Or A Downhill Person?

    by brendan on April 6, 2023

                  [To check out the stickers in my shop,…

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  • I had met this guy literally eight or ten minutes before, and he was now screaming at me from 30 feet up the trail. Everything was covered in wind-blown snow, and we were just sort of pointing ourselves uphill, keeping our heads down, and trudging on. The wind was gusting to probably 40 miles per hour, blasting us with frigid air and pellets of snow as we struggled toward the Continental Divide. Feeling It

    by brendan on January 26, 2023

      My stories, art, and newsletter are free, and ad-free, because of the financial support…

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  • semi-rad illustration: the race you wanted vs the race you got We Interrupt Your Expectations To Bring You Your Actual Marathon

    by brendan on November 10, 2022

    The day before the New York City Marathon, walking in Central Park up to the…

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  • illustration of line graph of brain activity Maybe I’m Not “Having Trouble Sleeping”

    by brendan on November 3, 2022

    The first time I had trouble sleeping at night was one Christmas Eve when I…

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  • About 150 years ago, or about seven years before Strava was invented, I moved out West from Iowa to go to the University of Montana, where the campus abuts Mt. Sentinel, a mountain with a large "M" partway up its west face. One Segment: The M Trail

    by brendan on February 17, 2022

    The folks at Strava asked me last summer if I’d like to tell a story…

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  • handwritten title box: Taking A Break Taking A Break

    by brendan on August 19, 2021

        —Brendan

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  • drawing of balzac in giant cup of coffee Was Balzac’s Coffee Consumption Really That Impressive?

    by brendan on March 25, 2021

    A few months back, my friend Anna sent us a print of a quote/paraphrasing from…

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  • handwritten title box: Thanks For 10 Years OR: Finding A Voice Thanks For 10 Years

    by brendan on February 4, 2021

                         

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  • handwritten title: Solitaire Solitaire

    by brendan on January 14, 2021

         

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  • The Things We Did To Get Through 2020 excerpt The Things We Did To Get Through 2020

    by brendan on December 22, 2020

    A couple weeks ago, I wrote an Instagram post asking people to share some of…

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  • how to be positive by brendan leonard ebook cover How To Be Positive, Part 2

    by brendan on November 24, 2020

    This is the second half of this illustrated mega-post (if you missed Part 1 last…

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  • how to be positive by brendan leonard ebook cover How To Be Positive — Part 1

    by brendan on November 19, 2020

    Today’s story is a little different from the usual—there are two options. I made it…

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  • Handwritten title box: Sporks, Spifes, Knorks, Freds, And Other 'Combination Utensils' You Probably Don't Really Need To Know About Sporks, Spifes, Knorks, Freds, And Other ‘Combination Utensils’ You Probably Don’t Really Need To Know About

    by brendan on November 5, 2020

                     

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  • handwritten text: staying in the game Staying In The Game

    by brendan on October 22, 2020

      [this is based on a presentation I gave at the American Alpine Club’s 2020…

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  • hand-drawn two-star review of online ratings title The Life-Changing Magic Of Ignoring The Ratings

    by brendan on October 15, 2020

    Several years ago, I had an idea to collect some bad Yelp reviews of U.S.…

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  • 12 bicycles, hand-drawn Life, In 12 Bicycles

    by brendan on October 1, 2020

    Thanks for reading. These posts are able to continue thanks to the handful of wonderful…

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  • hand-drawn title box The Things We Take With Us When We Move

    by brendan on July 16, 2020

        Thanks for reading. If you’d like to help keep Semi-Rad going, forward this…

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  • handwritten title: Weren't We Lucky Weren’t We Lucky

    by brendan on June 18, 2020

                      Thanks for reading. If you’d like…

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