A Diary of an Ultrarunning Life, Such That I Have One and This Is It
I always joked to myself that this blog would run its course when it turned into my running diary. If it’s no longer a joke, let’s get on with it. A brief note on web ephemera: blogs disappear not only when you stop posting but stop paying. Sites holding history merge, morph, migrate, sell. Integrations…
Race Report: Mining For Vert Challenge
This race consisted of a 0.7673934-mile trail loop up and down the Silvermine Ski Hill, in Harriman State Park, put on wonderfully by CTW Endurance. You could do the two-hour or the four-hour option; I did the latter. (There was also a 7.488766-mile trail race.) The course Up one abandoned little ski slope— The loop starts…
Race Report: Frosty Fat Sass
This race consisted of a 5K trail loop around the South Mountain Reservation, in New Jersey. It offered three options: I did the latter, so my race lasted from nine a.m. to three p.m. … ish. A few other things The race was self-supported; only water was provided. No problem—typical for a timed race in…
The USMNT will win the World Cup: When and how
During a 2022 World Cup match early in the knockout round, a player was fouled and fell to the ground. The announcer John Strong asked his partner, the analyst Stu Holden, a former USMNT player with 25 caps, to explain the situation. Why the call, when the replay couldn’t confirm a bludgeoning? Did it really…
Yunchan Lim and the Rachmaninoff Third Piano Concerto
Sometime before the pandemic I heard Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 live for the first time. The piece, known as the Rach 3, is among the most gargantuan in the standard repertoire, a vast structural complexity with knotty technicalities and tender souls. Long ago, I stretched my talent to learn its notes; I’ve probably encountered…
The Last Dance and the myth of Michael Jordan
The Last Dance, a miniseries from two years ago, is ostensibly a 1997-1998 Chicago Bulls documentary. In reality it is an absurd, glossy, enthralling rendition of the myth of Michael Jordan. It’s like a casino, and Jordan’s the house. His career wasn’t so different. I am as susceptible as anyone, maybe more so because a) I…
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Nathan Schiller 