Jim Czuprynski·Dec 27, 2021Why Being an IT Professional Is Just Like Cross-Country SkiingI’ve been an IT professional for almost 40 years now — 20 of those last years as an Oracle DBA. I’ve also been an amateur cross-country…
Andrea Sigurðardóttir·Apr 30, 2018Fossavatnsgangan 2018Í lok október 2017 skráði ég mig, í einhverju hvatvísiskasti, í Landvættaprógram Ferðafélags Íslands. Til að verða Landvættur þarf maður…
InSkiMinnbySkiMinn·Feb 20, 2017Extremely Hard and Incredibly SlowZach texted me Friday night suggesting a Saturday morning throwdown at Hyland, with some semblance to a 30k time trial. His idea was to…
InSkiMinnbySkiMinn·Feb 13, 2017Mora Vasaloppet Race ReportHaving decided to do the Mora Vasaloppet with the pressure sale of a price increase looming, and the well-intentioned reporting of a 56km…
InSkiMinnbySkiMinn·Feb 11, 2017Almost Vasaloppet TimeTomorrow is the Vasaloppet, my first 50k ski race! It is going to be four loops of a 14k, for a total of 56k (funny how that math works out…
InSkiMinnbySkiMinn·Feb 8, 2017On Breaking SkisSkis are meant to be skied, but maybe not to be broken. You can avoid breaking them by taking care of them, not doing stupid stuff, and…
InSkiMinnbySkiMinn·Feb 6, 2017City Lakes Loppet Race ReportThis sounds like it’s going to be a race report from the City Lakes Loppet, doesn’t it? Some hard grind through the slush of Wirth park…
InSkiMinnbySkiMinn·Feb 1, 2017A Bit of Sprint PrepYesterday, Speedy went to Wirth for practice, and came back Speedy-livid, which is a lot like disgruntled for normal people. He munched on…
InSkiMinnbySkiMinn·Jan 31, 2017The Wave 1 ProjectWith us now just under a month away from the Birkie, the fever is running high. As Johnny Klister once put it, the Birkie is the only day…
InSkiMinnbySkiMinn·Jan 27, 2017Testing Wax by Any Other NameYesterday evening Corey was blustering about testing wax at Hyland in the morning, and I had to come along and open my trap and suggest we…
