I think impermanence is implied by interdependence. If everything is interconnected and interaction means change, then impermanence seems necessary. If everything is static interdependence could still be true but impermanence would not since nothing ever changes. Arguably under that condition nothing actually truly exists. Or at least it is hard to imagine that a thing exists under that condition if there is no observation, characteristic or process through which to define it

These backyard ultras are weird.  I feel like maybe we’re only doing it once so we can feel justified in declaring them silly and moving on.  So that we are not all the people at my work who say things like “Why would you do that? “, “THAT’S you’re minute per mile pace?”, or “That doesn’t seem that hard - you just walk and eat and sleep.”  Ignoring the legit questions from the first two people, I feel like I have to do at least one of the backyard ultras before I can be dismi

Everyone who runs ultras gets this question. Why? Why would you do that? Sometimes it is kind of fun, sometimes it gets tiresome. But...

This section will be a literal literary junk drawer where ramblings go to die, but is still under construction. Will probably be full of...

Weeeeee're baaaaaaack. This is only the second time we have run the same 200 again. And our two Tahoe races were on quite different...

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It is amazing how many different definitions there are for science, considering its enormous position in modern society.  And as with...

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Editor's note: Took me 6 years to finish this thing and kind of still feel like we should re-write it. But the impact it had is just as...