Author: DaveC
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Cases for and against Armstrong
Call it “physiologically believable” (which many don’t like, but I use it with its obvious intention), or call it signs of change, I do believe that the Tour is slower, and that the days of 6.3W/kg for 40 minutes are now the stuff of highlights and commemorative DVDs. -Science of Sport, 7/23/10 For a…
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Alternate Entertainment
I have some work that must be done on MLK day, so cut time by going skiing this morning. Brown Mountain lookout trail in GNP. TH at 3.4k, lookout at 7.5, rain/snow line at 5.9. As one of my Juneau-raised co-workers said, vintage SE Alaska weather = fucking nasty. I thought I had enough time to…
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Structural Violence (and a prediction)
President Reagan said, “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them,…
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Crucial time
We had an exceptional start to the ski season this year. Early snow and lots of it prevented the pattern of anemic snowfalls interspersed with cold spells that made the base of last winter’s snowpack so sketchy for most of the winter. Even better, the high altitude rain I trekked through back in November soaked…
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Disregulation
Since I began doing social work post-undergrad, in 2003, it hasn’t been unusual for my work to adversely influence my sleep. Either the quantity, in the form of insomnia, or more commonly the quality, in the form of peculiar dreams and nightmares. There are many reasons to not blog, and a number of the classics…
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A note on blogging
It’s amazing that blogs even exist any more. Facebook and Twitter are the Fast Food Nation of thought. Who wouldn’t rather take 15 seconds to spout something off instead of the hours it takes to write a decent blog entry? Bloggers are the resistance, and before they get taken into custody in the name of…
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Fat
Todays skiing, and this evenings post, bring you two lessons: 1) Fat skis are good. 2) Perseverance pays off. Let us address each point briefly, beginning with the first. Hiding up in those white’d out little trees was 2-3 feet of the purest cold smoke. More in spots. The pitch in the far looker’s-left of…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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