Saturday! Valentine’s day! I’d planned to spend the day biking, since I thought I would ride the Oregon Randonneurs’ 200k route. But when I looked at the route they had planned, I noticed it was an out-and-back on many roads that I’ve already ridden on a bunch, and I was …
Remember randonneuring? That thing I used to do sometimes where I’d get on my bike and ride for miles and miles and miles? No, I don’t mean normal life when I just ride for miles and miles and miles because of the sheer joy of it, I mean those semi-organized …
At some point earlier this year, a younger version of me signed myself up for a trail half marathon in Silver Falls State Park, and then promptly forgot about it. So when I got back from Eastern Oregon and Idaho in September and got an email about day-of race information, …
So, Portland has this awesome park, a park that is over 5100 acres, a park with a running/hiking trail that’s 27 miles long, a park crisscrossed by more than seventy miles of other trails, a park that, in parts, still feels like wilderness. That park, of course, is Forest Park. …
