May 2019 – Putting Pins In A Map

Adventure Racing – The Stellar Combination of Sport and Exploration

allen May 23, 2019May 28, 2019 Experience/Travel, Participate

While 2019 includes my first foray into the world of Triathlon, its been a year of many firsts as earlier this year I discovered what might easily be my most favorite discipline of sport to participate in. Adventure Racing couldn’t be a more appropriately named sport, it combines the competitive...

Giving It a Tri

allen May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 Participate, Top

As I alluded to in the resurfacing post and the participating prequel, I’ve decided to try out new kinds of races/events beyond just the traditional running on pavement 5K, 10K, half-marathon etc. A few years ago one of my friends (who is a avid runner) was getting married in North...

Gotta Participate

allen May 13, 2019May 23, 2019 Participate, Top

I’ve done quite a few racing events (running, biking, etc.) over the years and at this point am even Race Director for my own Trail 10K/5K event (going on its 6th year now), and people have sometimes pinged me for advice on how to get into something, whats the best...

Time For More Pins

allen May 8, 2019May 13, 2019 Experience/Travel, Participate, Top, Watch/Learn

Back in 2005-ish I secured the PPIAM domain, and built a small little website from scratch. I did all the coding myself, started learning JavaScript, Photoshop, Dreamweaver to do some fancier things like a randomized header, and also some embedding of this crazy new thing known as Google Maps. Why?...