DAILY PHOTO: On the Road in North Vietnam
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Author Archives: B Gourley
PROMPT: Followed Your Gut
Daily writing prompt
What’s a time you followed your gut and it turned out to be exactly right?
I was hungry, so I ate some food, and I wasn’t hungry afterwards. It actually happens with regularity.
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DAILY PHOTO: Rainy Day in the North Vietnamese Countryside
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PROMPT: Nominate
Daily writing prompt
Emperor Palpatine has announced open elections for a new Emperor — and he’s nominated Darth Vader. You get to nominate one challenger.
Let’s see. Someone fictional and from the future. I nominate Arthur Dent. #ArthurDentforEmperor
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DAILY PHOTO: Scenes Atop Uttari Betta
PROMPT: Ridiculous
Daily writing prompt
What’s something you used to believe as a kid that seems ridiculous now?
That adults knew stuff and were free to do as they pleased.
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DAILY PHOTO: Blossoms After the Harvest
PROMPT: Changed
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What’s a piece of media (book, movie, song) that changed how you see the world?
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
Also: Quiet by Susan Cain; Water Margin by Shī Nài’ān; and Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dirt Road [Haiku]
the dust wedge
of an unseen vehicle
runs down the dirt road.
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BOOK: “The Essentials of Obstacle Race Training” by David Magida & Melissa Rodriguez
The Essentials of Obstacle Race Training by David MagidaMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Publisher site – Human Kinetics
This book is written as a soup-to-nuts guide to running a successful obstacle course race from nutrition to gear to what to expect by way of obstacles, as well as how to build workouts that will adequately prepare one. It’s a task which the book performs admirably. While the core of the book is the exercises and regimens into which one fits said exercises, there are some other elements that are useful, such as description of the class of obstacles one is likely to see along with discussion of variations thereof, the different categories of race, explanation of what to keep in mind at various stages leading up to the race, and a chapter on how to prepare the mind as well as the body, and more.
The book has photos and tables to supplement the descriptions.
I found this book to be useful and sufficiently specialized to the objective at hand. For example, it gave considerable attention to the question of grip strength, a topic that wouldn’t merit mention in many sport preparation guides. If you’re interested in running an obstacle course race and want to know what to be prepared for, and how to prepare for it, I’d recommend this book.
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