Braving the unseasonal weather to join Sean Kelly and An Post-Chain Reaction for pre-season training in Calpe
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6 months prior to starting my thru hike, I spent at least 2 hours every day glued to my computer screen, reading various reviews and articles about each sleeping system. Eventually, I pulled the trigger and bought a Warbonnet RidgeRunner Hammock (which I would highly recommend).
AKA the most comfortable bed I’ve ever had. Honestly, I have zero complaints about the design or use of the hammock. And yet, I’ve chosen to take a tent on my AT journey (my coveted Nemo Hornet 2P). ...
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by buying gear and stuff and sending it back, and buying more stuff and sending it back…and sometimes buying the same things over again. We’ve become chatty with the mailman, whose son did some section hiking on the AT, but not with the UPS man, who just drops the packages, rings the bell and runs away.
I’m not an inexperienced hiker, but nearly all of my hiking has been done in Europe, where there is an extensive network of mountain huts. ...
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Hiker hobble is a thing, y’all.
At the end of an eight-day section hike in the White Mountains last summer, my knees quit bending.
If I had to kneel down, say, to get in the tent or to filter water, I had to have an exit strategy. Because bending was no longer part of their repertoire.
After just a few days, or just one day, on the trail, everyone starts walking around like they’re 80 years old. ...
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In the mail this week was a review copy of Golf’s Iron Horse: The Astonishing Record-Breaking Life Of Ralph Kennedy.
Kennedy was a founding member of Winged Foot, whose life was changed in a chance encounter with Englishman Charles Leonard Fletcher in 1919. When Fletcher told Kennedy that he had played some 240 courses in his lifetime, Fletcher took it as a challenge. By the time Kennedy was done some forty years later, he had played golf on more than 3,165 different courses in all forty-eight states, nine Canadian provinces, and more than a dozen different countries. Kennedy played golf some 8,500 times over his lifetime, the equivalent of teeing it up every day for twenty-three straight years.
The feat led the New York Sun to declare him “golf’s Lou Gehrig” in 1935.
I really look forward to reading this book, and will have a review as soon as possible.
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Olympic champion Jo and Madison-Genesis star Erick reflect on their upbringing and sibling rivalry
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Dates: February 2 – February 5, 2017
Where: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Courses: Majlis course at the Emirates Golf Club
Field size: 132
2016 champion: Danny Willett
Purse:$2,650,000 (€410,224/winner)
Race To Dubai Points: 410, 224 points to the winner
Format: 72-hole stroke play
There is lots of interest in this week’s Omega Dubai Desert Classic as Tiger Woods makes the second full field start of his 2017 comeback tour. It will be a tough field against which to compete. The field includes:
The field also includes two amateurs. One, Curtis Luck won the 2016 US Amateur, the Western Australia Open and the 2016 Asia-Pacific Amateur. He intended to go pro after the US Amateur, but his win there gained him entry to The Masters if he remained an amateur, so he delayed that transition.
Emirates Golf Club is host of both the PGA European Tour sanctioned Omega Dubai Desert Classic and Omega Dubai Ladies Masters.
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