Blog entries by Joshh

Part of this is poached from the "Let's have your PR's" thread. Ran my first competitive 5k since highschool (late 80's) this morning. Race for the Cure down on the waterfront in Portland. My wife, daughter and I ran it in memory of a dear friend who passed away at a very young age recently...
This is a blog post from my work blog http://buy.kamokapearls.com/blogs/pearly-blog where there are a bunch of photos of amazing scenery and trout. Here goes: This past week we set pearls and work aside, packed up the car and headed for the mountains. Summer is fleeting here in the Pacific...
Did my first race since junior year in highschool yesterday. It's been 23 years and it was my first ever BF. Been training to debut with a 5k but this came up a few days ago, it was free, on home turf and sounded like a really cool race. I learned shortly before that it was actually 6.69 miles...
It's a good time to be a runner in Portland right now. Flowers are blossoming everywhere and temps broke the 60's for the first time today. On a quick 3 miler this afternoon I could SMELL flowers for the first time since I-can't-remember-when. Absolutely beautiful. Coming from the tropics and...
Great read Stomper! I'm looking for the rating stars but not finding them. The photo comparison is priceless. Blog of the week with a doubt.
The Hydration thread inspired me to start this blog post that I hope to update as thoughts pop up. I cc'd what I wrote there to here but will be adding to it as time goes on. I learned how to run in the 80's. At that time no one had camelbacks or ran with waterbottles, etc. In practice we'd...
Mid 20°'s here in Portland today. In my neighborhood on the hill everything is blanketed in white from the season's first snowfall last night. I was eager to go on a short run to maintain the pads and see what it was like to run on the frozen ground and snow. The postings of brave forum...
Rainy weather has started here in Portland and temps are starting to drop. Yesterday as I was driving my kids to school we rounded a corner and saw Mount Hood cloaked in white for the first time. I'm not a snowboarder yet but it was calling out to be enjoyed, kind of like a perfect wave that...