Wednesday, 9/29/21

Sir Roger Bannister honored at Westminster Abbey

You probably would like Twin Tracks: The Autobiography of Roger Bannister …A jolly good/brilliant fellow, for sure.

Monday, 9/27/21

Sore Is Good, Pain Is Bad: The Workout of a 79-Year-Old Who Twice Summited Mount Everest

Saturday, 9/25/21

Can you beat Cassie the robot in a 5k? Read

On a giant violin in Venice. Enjoy

Friday, 9/24/21

The joy of rude place names

Wednesday, 9/22/21

Alex Hutchinson: Nature Is Medicine. But What’s The Right Dose? …Check your home address. No. 1 son lives in Mt. Shasta, CA and gets an impressive 87. We live very close to a green belt and the Willamette River. Our score is 58. Our prior residence in Santa Clarita gets a 20.

Tuesday, 9/21/21

San Francisco marathoners were required to wear masks on some portions of the course. …,Meanwhile

Friday, 9/17/21

Last night we ran a 5K at Dorris Ranch. Results. …Sorta tough. On rocky truck and scattered filbert trails. Pretty, though. My time was almost three minutes slower than the recent 5K on pancake flat streets in downtown Eugene.

Dorris Ranch at 115 m.p.h. video. Best viewed with the sound off.

Tuesday, 9/14/21

Diary entry by a Portland, Oregon citizen dated 9/14/1927, approximately four months after Lindbergh’s historic flight from New York to Paris:

On September 14, 1927, Charles “Lindy” Lindberg made a triumphal tour through Portland. His welcome included a parade, a banquet at the old Multnomah Hotel and a radio broadcast to children. According to the Oregon Journal, his reception was, “the greatest Portland has ever accorded anyone.” Before the ‘Lone Eagle’s” departure, local mechanic Danny Greco fixed a hole in the Spirit’s elevator, apparently torn by a stick kicked up during the land on the Swan Island runway which was unsurfaced and unmarked then. On Lindy’s flight south, he dropped leaflets over Eugene and other points reading “Greetings from Lindbergh.”

Monday, 9/13/21

How To Read

38 and a school teacher, not a professional athlete. Watch

Sunday, 9/12/21

Dolly Parton loves Eugene, Oregon