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The Basics Years Running: 5ish, 2.5 of which since I’ve moved here to the UV Favorite Distance: half marathon  Day Job: IT generalist — talk to me about tech! Favorite Emojis: 🫨, 👀, 🧑‍🌾 Preferred Terrain: dirt road/easy singletrack Running Weather Preference: 47 degrees, sunny but in the shade, summer into fall. Alternatively, 2 hours into a heavy snowstorm with roads still unplowed. Favorite Shoes: Saucony Endorphin Pro is my certified do-it-all. I’ve run them on technical trail, in snow, in rain, in good health and bad, etc …  The “Run-Down” Why I started running: I started running at the…

This month I’ll stick to my actual runs and relegate my skiing and other outings to my “Alaskan Journal” (https://www.trailnotes.org). All of my recent runs have been linked to “Running Club North”.  In fact their running calendar is pretty full, with one to three events per weekend. Then during the week there is the Wednesday Fahrenheit Be Darned (FBD) and the Thursday Hoodoo Brewery run.  Which is more than I could handle.  So I do just the Wednesday runs,  backcountry ski twice a week, and skate ski once a week. And I slipped in one quirky race. >>March 4 FBD…

Greetings, UVRC, and happy March! I recently returned from a week of running, hiking, and playing in warm, sunny Arizona. I went to grad school in Flagstaff more years ago than I care to admit, so we decided to spend a week visiting old friends and old favorite trails. We got to tour though the incredibly diverse landscape unique to the Grand Canyon State, as our travels took us from 11,500ft down to 2100ft, and in doing so, we got a solid taste of spring. (And, in the case of the Sonoran desert outside of Phoenix, the 90 degree temps…