MDK10 Outside

Story from a life-long trail volunteer of funding cuts to wilderness preservation , and ideas of whether wilderness equals no access for any...

Cross-posted to Cognition and Evolution MDK10 Outside . New analysis of football stats at advancednflstats.com, from an expected utility s...

Cross-posted to my history blog The Late Enlightenment . We typically go to mountains to get away from it all, especially other humans. I...

If San Diego shifted north to San Francisco’s latitude but kept the same longitude, it would be 273 miles inland, 70 miles deep into Nevada,...

In sports, even in championship games that are supposedly on neutral ground, some teams are thought to have home advantage if they play in o...

View Rattlesnake Encounters in San Diego County in a larger map Clicking on that nasty-looking reptile you see to the right will take you...

Added later: Dave Stillman posts the really terrible precip stats for Santa Barbara and southern Los Padres . We're in trouble here pe...

This is being run by Friends of Del Mar Mesa - if you're interested and want to contact them, check them out on Facebook . Where: Park...

City officials have dragged their feet on a small community park adjoining the area . (Please check out that link, which also has lots of l...

If I see one more person on Facebook bragging to their relatives back East about our great weather... Red means extreme, orange means sev...

In 1972 (1972!) women weren't allowed to run Boston. Actually it wasn't until 1977 that they were allowed to run, largely as a resu...

The lady and I had some rare unplanned coinciding time off, and she has more frequent flier miles than she knows what to do with. We determ...

In an interview recently I was asked how I got into trail running and long races. (It was a residency interview, not an interview about run...

When you grow up outside California (as I did, and almost half of us Californians did) you grow up with set-in-LA movies, and the Golden Gat...

Boing Boing has a nice post about caffeine and energy drink use in distance running events, and associated mortality. It's not huge, b...

Just wanted to draw attention to Mark Tanaka's post about Dirty Dare , Catra Corbett's race in the Ohlone Wilderness. Fun race appa...

Get it? That is all.

Check out statesrunner.com . He's run across 31 states so far . Wish I had the time...but really it's always a matter of prioritie...

Also, Pacific sunset from Camp Pendleton:

There are rocks in the coastal moors just south of Fort Ross that are a) good for climbing and that are b) smoothed off in odd ways, high ...

Long-form piece in the OC Weekly here . I had only vaguely heard of this particular story before and despite repeated trips into that part ...

The Singularity may be coming for personal trainers sooner than you think. A Wired paper highlights market niches for personal drones, one ...