"Do you take a highly analytic approach to your races, completely take it as it comes, or something in between?"
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Happy Trails on iRunFar #3- When I Grow UP!
A bit of a teaser for today's Happy Trails comic #3 - When I Grow UP! See the entire comic at iRunFar and make sure to check out Bryon's call for comments. I would love to hear what you have to say about it;-)
ONE HOUR URG CHALLENGE- LAZY GUY CHAIR
This is the first, "One Hour URG Challenge". I gave myself one hour to come up with an idea draw it and upload it. I can't dwell on posting it because I am over my 1 hour time limit. Enjoy!
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
URG at The DEPOT!
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Thanks to Bryon for sending in his idea for an "URG".
Bryon's idea with some of my thoughts in (bold)-Ok, now that I have my sketch in front of me, I have a two panel comic(2 panels Bryon, really??)... though, now that I think about it, it might be three panels(more like 6).
Panel 1: URG walks into a huge home repair/construction store akin to Home Depot/Lowes in the States. You can prominently see a sign that lists many, many aisles. Maybe you can read all of them, maybe you can't, but the last one is "outdoors" or "garden" or something like that. There are also an huge number of aisles radiating from the entry way.(huge number of aisles? I do have a life you know. Do you know how much work that is?? I did 5.)
Panel 2 (optional... originally not included): URG walking around some ridiculous aisle looking forlorn. He's clearly out of place.
Panel 3: URG has found the outdoor/garden department and is either completely at ease or running around the tree selection.
I suppose there could be another panel before Panel 1 in which Guy and Gal are talking about fixing an issue (leaky roof, broken pipe, etc) to set the story. Maybe it's clear it's a weekend and URG is gonna miss his Saturday run(Good idea but yes it did mean another panel plus one more to wrap it up).
Ok, there's my idea. I won't be the least bit offended if you toss it. :-) (well your idea escaped the trash bin, hope you like the final product;-p)
Sunday, March 18, 2012
NEW COMIC SERIES "HAPPY TRAILS" on iRunFar.com
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| First panel of the debut comic, "It's A Bird". To see the full comic go to iRunFar.com |
Thanks,
EJ
Monday, March 5, 2012
Movie Night
Apparently some people like a little(90 inches) entertainment while getting some running time in.
Friday, February 24, 2012
GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE
SPOT THE 8 9 DIFFERENCES;-)
A remake of an old URG Classic;-) I remade it to adorn the top of the this blog because the sentiment of it warms my heart and makes me smile. I have been wanting to put up just the right comic at the top of this blog for a while and hearing about the loss of a friends BEST FRIEND was a sign that this was indeed the right choice.
Note- I added the, "Spot the 8 er 9 Differences" game after Sara's comment that she liked the "tail wag" in the original.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Cold Weather, Digit Protection System
Next Saturday is the Yukon Arctic Ultra where the temperatures have been hitting -40 C lately.
GOOD LUCK to everyone heading north(or south) next weekend including my coach Derrick who will be tackling the 100miler
and David who is giving the Marathon a try.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
An American URG and An English URG walk into a Pub...
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Thanks to Keith for sending me the story that inspired this URG way back on November 18th, 2010. It has been simmering on the back burners of my brain since then and to tell you the truth I am relieved to finally get that pot off of my stove to make room for the other things I need to obsess about. As I told Keith I had hoped this would become a one panel gag comic, however it turned out to be somewhat of a "Monster" for me in the end and I was happy to have taken on the challenge of it. Anyhow here is Keith's story -
In September I ran a 100 mile race with Mr Rajeev Patel, maybe you've heard of him. He came over to the UK and we ran the South Downs Way together... we got lost in the middle of the night, missed a cutoff and DNFd but that is another story. During that race we passed through a quaint english village, deciding to pop into a typical english local pub to fill up our water bottles ( we both carried 2x handhelds ). I thought we would quietly ( in a polite english manner ) sneak into the toilets and fill up our bottles there. Not Rajeev. He walks straight to the barman, gives him his water bottles and asks him to fill his bottles. The barman was taken aback a little at this loud talking, presumptious American fellow who was Indian looking. We both had backpacks on and all the wet weather gear of course. Then Rajeev proceeds to order a bottle of beer in thanks... and necks it down. I very politely refused. Rajeev says "come on, come on, it's calories man, calories!!". I again polietly reassured him I wouldn't be participating, feeling a little embarrassed for the barman at my friends 'strange' ( but normal ) behaviour as far as some englishmen are concerned. The barman is surprised and I can almost see his toughts... "who runs a 100 miles while drinking beer along the way". We finished filling our water bottles and went on our way leaving behind the bemused barman and wife. I often wonder what they said to eachother after we left the bar.
Here's a picture of me
Here's a picture of Rajeev
Cheers
Keith
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Saturday, December 24, 2011
All URG wants for Christmas
It's hard to train for a February Ultra in the Yukon when you still don't have any snow for Christmas.
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