Adventures in Onionism

I ran the Zane Grey 50-miler in Arizona on Saturday. It was rough, and having a conference at UC Davis, a flight delay, and under five hours of sleep the night before didn't really help. But it was very pretty, so I still had fun. Except for miles 33-46. Those sort of sucked. It was my slowest 50-miler tim in a decade or so, but Zane Grey is maybe top 3 or top 5 hardest 50's. I didn't carry my camera, so these photos are from the Mazatzal Wilderness, where I spent Sunday on a short backpacking trip before flying home early Monday. Monday Morning Couldn't get it to focus without using my flashlight Hey bear. What am I? I look like a stink bug in water. Someday, maybe Zane Grey Finisher Prize Look that relief on that terrain map. The Mogollon Rim.

Better than the craziest of my Philly/Swat runs, a hike around the border of Philly. News story , interactive maps .

I ran 12, biked 42, and did four hours of trail work in the Marin headlands. It was pretty. You can't tell, but there's a house in there by that tree.

I use Strava to log my running and biking miles. They use a freemium business model. The premium isn't worth it as a runner, I've decided, and you'd need to be a total power/wattage bike equipment geek for it to be worth it. But since I paid for one month, here are the heat maps that show where I've run most frequently. I assume I'm the only person yet to log significant Strava miles in Kakamega, Kenya.  Swat, Philly, and that one time I ran to Philly from Swat. Home I kind of wish I had Strava back in the day when I ran from Berkeley to Diablo and back. It would make a nice connection between many of my routes.  Not nearly as exciting for running. I think the heat map algorithm is pretty silly. The intensity is logged only by the number of workouts on which you've covered a certain stretch, not the actual number of times you've covered a stretch. That is, I've run around this loop exactly 100 times, but I did it all o...

I ran from Union City BART to my house last Saturday. It was 52 miles or so. And now I did some silly analysis of BART commute times and home prices. I'm pretty happy about how cool R Markdown & knitr (for dynamic documents), R projects (for file management) and built-in version control in R Studio are. I'll stop. Just look at this website .