FRIDAY INSPIRATION

“I’d argue—hot take here—that music is only as good as the memories that are attached to it.” —Nathan Zed (video)   The original Nextdoor…

Reviewing cakes based on the climbing depicted on them (thanks, Regge!) (video) A look back at some of Bruce Davidson’s fascinating photography of the…

If you have been sitting around wondering, “Is there a 1980s/90s action movie besides Die Hard that could just barely qualify as a ‘holiday…

This is not only an incredible story, but an incredible film about an incredible story. If you don’t have 11.5 minutes to watch this…

A super-fun, short film bringing together drumming and running/scrambling in Boulder’s Flatirons, two things that Kyle Richardson excels at (OK, I guess that’s actually…

A quick note from me: One evening sometime in the past week, and it was either while listening to the Dolly Parton’s America podcast…

Great short film about a very small and obscure niche of kayaking called “squirt boating,” which is weird, but not as weird as the…

I finally sat down to watch the film Transamericana with Rickey Gates and, well, add me to the list of people saying it’s poetry—here’s…

“A friend of mine gave me really great advice last year—she said, ‘Start slow, and then fade.’” —Kevin Schmidt, Courtney Dauwalter’s husband, at the…

NYC bike messenger John Shackleford is biking the Underground Railroad from Mobile, Alabama, to Washington, DC and is making a film about it (video)…

Great 10-minute film of ultrarunner Coree Woltering’s attempt to break the Fastest Known Time on Wisconsin’s 1,200-mile Ice Age Trail (video) The only thing…

Fantastic piece of filmmaking by The Ginger Runner in this film about the last mile of the Western States 100 (video) I don’t know…

Courtney Dauwalter’s speedy attempt at the Colorado Trail + 7 other links

Great short film about the Golden Hour, the final hour before the cutoff at the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run, and the people who…