Matt

@matt_trails
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Trail running and stuff about it

For everyone who's had their bike stolen, check this article out. It's long ish, but helps understand what we're up against when our heart breaks for a stolen bike.

https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valleys-fanciest-stolen-bikes-trafficked-mastermind-jalisco-mexico/

The West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico

"We have people stealing all over the world." A digital sleuth named Bryan Hance has spent the past four years obsessively uncovering a bicycle-theft pipeline of astonishing scale, running from the US West Coast to Mexico.

WIRED
Barkley finally has a woman finisher. Jasmine Paris is amazing and that finish,.with a minute and a half to go, spectacular.
After several years of listening vicariously through my wife, I have begun listening to the SWAP podcast of my own volition. I had to train to handle so much optimism.

Georgia is trying to criminalize bailing people out of jail 🥴 They are trying to limit non-profits to only bailing out 3 people per year. The bill has today passed the Georgia state senate.

Correction: It limits everyone!

“No more than three cash bonds maybe posted per year by any individual, corporation, organization, charity, nonprofit corporation, or group in any jurisdiction,”

https://atlpresscollective.com/2024/02/01/georgia-cash-bail-expansion-act-will-criminalize-charitable-bail-funds/

#atlanta #stopcopcity #georgia #acab

New Georgia cash bail expansion will criminalize charitable bail funds

A sweeping state bill expanding the cash bail system and criminalizing charitable bail organizations passed in the Georgia Senate by a 30-17 margin Thursday.  The Georgia House of Representatives i…

Atlanta Community Press Collective.

❝We all know that it is physically impossible to run up a hill. [S]hould someone actually manage the monumental feat of running 100ft on a 12° slope, it would have the same detrimental effect on their body as three packs of cigarettes.
—Matt Poulton
https://www.gotothefells.com/post/beginners-guide-to-fell-running-ascending

In which Matt reveals, undoubtedly at great risk to himself, what the Keep Fell Running Alive By Fooling Passers By Organisation (KFRABFPBO) doesn’t want you to know.

#running #trailrunning #ultrarunning

The beginner's guide to fell running: Ascending

This beginners guide to fell running is entirely satirical, I have absolutely no qualifications to give anyone advice on anything, let alone running. Do not follow this advice. Ascending is to Descending what Descending is to Ascending, and vice versa (Poulton, M, 2023) The second rule of fell running biomechanics places stringent rules on force through the joints. This can be summarised with the equation X=YMU, where X is the total force on the joints, and YMU is the derivative of the gradient,

GO TO THE FELLS

❝But, for me, it is nice to remember that progress is an inch worm, not a kangaroo. Weekly, I inch forward, in the direction I want to go. I am not a lost cause when my first attempts to endure are unimpressive.
—Sabrina Little
https://www.irunfar.com/on-perseverance-in-running-and-life

#running #trailrunning #ultrarunning

On Perseverance in Running and Life

Advice on persevering in training and in life.

iRunFar
👋 Hello, new followers! We're the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, both a university museum and the official state art museum. We celebrated our 75th birthday in 2023, and we have a collection of around 20,000 objects: American paintings, decorative arts, works on paper, much more. Mastodon feels like a good place for us given our academic and public focus. ❤️

About time to think about getting ready for the exciting idea of planning the first draft of a non-committal 2024 trail year

#trailrunning

The perfect video game holiday drink crossover doesn’t exi—

#ArtAdventCalendar #sonicthehedgehog #christmas #illustration #videogames

A fair and important point. The drafters of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment understood why you needed to keep dangerous insurrectionists off the ballot in the first place.