“In the ancient Olympics, nobody competed with shoes, you would run barefoot.” — Daniel Lieberman, evolutionary biologist Forget the invention of sex, fire, toolmaking, language, agriculture. The real turning point in the four-billion-year saga from the origin of life on Earth to bacon-flavored dental floss occurred 7 million years ago, a blink of a geological eye. That’s […]
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Nonbinary Runners Find Their Lane
Eureka local Madison MacGregor made a promise to themself to one day run in the Avenue of the Giants half Marathon again. It had been seven years and two hip surgeries since they last attempted the race. Following the lead of other major marathons, Avenue of the Giants hosted its first nonbinary category, and MacGregor […]
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NCJ Preview: The Search for Emmi and the Relief of Rage Runs
May 5 was a day of awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2 Spirit People. For contributor Cutcha Risling Baldy, it’s personal, as her cousin Emmilee Risling is among the missing. This week we have Risling Baldy’s personal account and how a nonprofit brought resources for a massive search that isn’t over […]
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Getting (Back) Into Running with Six Rivers Running Club
I’ve been out of the running game for a while. I let my old jogging habits fizzle out during the pandemic, but once I got vaxxed and moved to Humboldt in 2021, it hardly seemed right to let all the scenic jogging spots go to waste. I kicked my feet off the couch and found […]
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Clam Beach Run Splashes Again
More than 600 runners and walkers lined up under warm, sunny skies in Trinidad on Saturday afternoon for the start of the 56th annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run Honoring Ford Hess. The race, which was canceled last year due to the pandemic, was shortened to 5 ¾ miles this year and followed the usual route […]
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Running Your Own Race
The virtual 5K has been around since long before COVID. It’s a pretty simple idea, if you think about it. In this day and age, when you can have a robot vacuum automatically clean your house every day, or order all your groceries on an app and have them delivered to your car, why are […]
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The Red Streak
Born in Eureka in 1946, Bob Talmadge moved to Willow Creek with his family at the age of 3. He moved through the local school system as a regular kid and a gifted student. Judy Skidmore, a classmate, wrote, “even as a child he had a commanding presence. He could transform from a serious thoughtful […]
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Joyful Moving
Every year, between the end of December and early January, I read a fair number of articles focused on health and wellness. My favorite this season was: “How to Be Healthy, in Just 48 Words” in The New York Times by Yoni Freedhoff, associate professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa. The seven […]
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Splash and Dash: Photos from the Clam Beach Run
As the starting time of 12:30 p.m. approached for the 54th annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run Honoring Ford Hess on Saturday, Feb 2, a rainbow emerged over Trinidad. The weather forecast had predicted continuing rain but the sky cleared nicely just in time for the runners and walkers in the 3-, 5.75- and 8.75-mile […]
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The Phoenix Approach
It’s a bummer: My body at 67 is not what it was at 20, 30 or even 40. I’ve had to give up five or six physical activities, and each time I let go, adapting to the new reality is bittersweet. For instance, I started jogging in college and ran consistently into my early 60s, […]
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HumSport: Your Week in Sports Photos
Local photographer Jose Quezada has launched a pair of new websites, HumSport and HumLook, showcasing the work of local photographers. Photographers will be uploading galleries of photos on both sites regularly, showcasing their best images of local sports, cultural events and landscapes. High-resolution downloads of the images are also available for $5 apiece. The Journal […]
