MDK10 Outside

As stupid as it is, I'm obsessed with this gadget that shows where in the country you live, "on average", based on the places...

In a Bloomberg piece Megan McArdle asks why Olympics-hosting countries are building new ruins (nice). Think she's kidding? Here's...

This is the next installment in my series of reviewing Sac banh mi shops; previous review here , and I'll link to the next one when I po...

From Imgur:

The back side of the Escarpment, from Duncan Peak today. Snow on the north side prevented my continuing on. It will melt fast. And then ...

That oak is in Ohlone Wilderness, but I did want to document my little trips out to the Capay Valley this spring. Northern California...

Here I predicted (with data) a sub-2-hour marathon by 2038, based on the rate at which previous world records have fallen . (Which by the w...

A study by Saugy et al on PLoS ONE makes (or implies) the claim that super-long ultras (as in, 200 miles) don't damage muscle as much as...

The jackoff's name is Ben. Kidding, I'm totally jealous. Thanks for documenting the journey bro! His instagram is here . He real...

I used to wonder what would happen if competitive road marathon runners got on some of the mountainous trail courses in the Western US. My ...

Some years ago I noticed the San Leandro Square on satellite images of the East Bay watershed area. So I went back there to see what it wa...

ADDED LATER: the first half of March was wet. From 2/18 to 3/25 California's major reservoirs caught up against historical average, fr...

Northwest Neah Bay, Washington Northeast Grand Isle, Maine Southeast Miami, Florida Southwest Point Conception, CA Neah Bay certainly...

Find their blog here . I did a very modified version of the Ridge Trail in my own run around the Bay (which I then connected to the Wester...

Images below compiled from actual running data for San Francisco, LA and Philly resp.; but nothing beats the global Strava database , which ...

Graph below showing steep-hike inclines is from the always excellent Photography on the Run blog . My first thought was: "Wow, ever...

The Central Coast is a huge, amazing place, that is one of the few places that combines all the things that make California unique and speci...

Below: the American River bike trail with the Guy West Bridge in the distance. Image credit RubberDucky451 . The American River is quite ...

Added later: a NYT article shows that we do indeed spend too much time in the U.S. worrying about things with venomous things and things wi...

Santa Cruz Island from space, courtesy NASA . Somehow these large islands off the coast of Ventura and Santa Barbara County escape the n...

I was thinking about doing this, or more precisely, thinking about trying to talk someone who has a boat into doing it. Kind of interesting...

Some pointless map geekery for you, if you find yourself driving on the 5. If you're cruising on the 5, stop in one of these places and...

Maybe it was a little greener during the early pleistocene (or whenever the newly discovered Homo namedi lived.) From National Geographic,...

You shall not find new places; other seas you shall not find. This place shall follow you. And you shall walk the same familiar streets, ...

While running in Berkeley today I ran into noted ultrarunner Mike Palmer, as one does. (Seriously, this has happened to me so consistently ...

Below: as Chargers fans explain, even if a stadium isn't actually a good investment, there are much more important things on the line h...

I finally got around to reading Tim Noakes's Lore of Running , and among the many gems in it, is a brief discussion of the race mentione...

While back in PA I didn't have time to do much of anything fun outside, but I did get out for a run from Antietam Lake, up to the Pagoda...