Swingley Development

Lennier We let Lennier go this afternoon. He’s the oldest dog we’ve ever had at 16 years, 4½ months, and was happy and active until the very end. Which is a miracle because he had a crazy amount of things wrong with him, including Megaesophagus, Myasthenia gravis, and some sort of inflammatory bowel disease. He got a steady dose of medication by the end, eight different times during the day and night. He came to us on March 31st, 2012 from Andrea’s mushing partner Bonnie. He was part of a…

First snow in Fairbanks, October 1st Introduction The following post probably won’t be of much interest to people outside of the fantasy baseball community, and maybe not even then, but I play in a 10 team fantasy baseball league composed of players scattered around the United States that are friends with Ned Rozell, aka Chicken Stanley. I used to play as the Swingley Athletics, but when John Fisher moved the team out of Oakland I was disgusted enough to become the Phanatics in support of my…

Equinox Marathon Start, 2025. Photo: Todd Paris Abstract We review race participation for Running Club North races between 2006 and 2026, examining demographic changes across the period, and the post-pandemic recovery. Finisher records for 12 races from 2006 through 2026 (115,945 records) come from my races database, with the race-year as the unit of analysis. We fit hierarchical models in rstanarm: binomial models for the proportion of the field in each group, and negative binomial models for…

Long Lake and the cirque below Mount Victor This is our fourth trip to the Wind River Range, but instead of starting at Elkhart Park, we started from the Boulder Canyon trailhead. The trip was centered around spending two nights near the south side of Long Lake, which is the lake we saw from our day hike last year. I wanted to hike the “orange” trail past Long Lake from the other side, intersecting our day hike from Hayes Lake last year to the Mount Victor cirque. Salt Lake City We all flew…

Lights on the ski trail near FAOA2, 00:43 Saturday morning Introduction In 2024 I ran the 24-hour Alaska Endurance Trail Run and since then I’ve wanted to run it again to improve my distance. This year was the tenth running of the race and I signed up in mid-winter hoping to do better. Unfortunately, this was a terrible winter for training and I forget how little free time I have during track and field season, so I was under-trained, with very few weekly miles and no long distance runs to…

Colorado Creek Cabin Introduction Ned, Cora and I went on a cabin trip last weekend in the Colorado and Beaver Creek valleys. We started at the Colorado Creek Trailhead at mile 57 of the Elliot Highway and biked 13 miles to the Colorado Creek Cabin. The next day we biked 9 miles to the Wolf Run Cabin. And on Sunday, we biked all the way back to the trailhead. The weather forecast claimed sunny skies with temperatures above zero and very little wind. As it turned out, they were rig...