Monday, March 12, 2007

Stinson 10K and Half Marathon - April 14

Now that we've officially branched into trail racing, and more importantly, met Gabor's nemesis, I'm suggesting a morning of running and an afternoon of funning at Stinson. We'll begin with a nice little jaunt up and around Mt. Tam and finish with an afternoon of frolicking at the beach. All of this for just $30! And for the non-runners, bring your bikes or go for a hike while us ninnies blow out our knees.

So far Peter, Gabor and Ladybird are in! Register soon!
Saturday, April 14

http://www.envirosports.com/events/displayevent.php?eventid=1762

Saturday, March 10, 2007

First Knackered Knees Event

Related to the Knackered Tyres, the Knackered Knees running group crushed all at their first ever international appearance in the Envirosports Marin Trails 10/20K.

Every participant completed the event with a podium finish, as follows:

Mark Schirmer - 2nd place, M 30-34
Peter Repetti - 3rd place, M 35-39
Gabor Torok - 2nd place, M 35-39

...and...

Kristen Anderson - 1st place, F 20-25

Excellent job, everyone!

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Get Blog Postings Sent to Your Email!

Hey KTs - so there is a (relatively) easy way to get these posting automatically posted to your email so you know there is something new to check out on the blog site. You simply subscribe to RSS or Atom feeds from the site. You can do it many ways:

If you use MS Outlook or Outlook Express, which many people do, you can download either intraVnews (http://www.intravnews.com/download.aspx) or RSSpopper (http://rsspopper.blogspot.com/2004/10/download.html). You install these and do a little setting up and then Outlook checks periodically for new posts and sends them to you in an email.

You can also add these feeds to other email readers, like Yahoo or AOL or Thunderbird. There are lots of ways to do it. And any way you do it, you can add this as the address for the feed in the appropriate place: http://knackeredtyres.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss.

If you want to know more about RSS and Atom feeds, you can go here: http://www.thoughtsonthings.com/archives/2005/02/ive_gone_rss_cr.php.

Anyway - this seems like a good way to make the blog more useful. So give it a try and get out and ride!!!

Friday, March 02, 2007

Sunday, March 4 Marin Ride

KTs,

I'm planning a Marin ride for Sunday starting at Lucas Valley Park & Ride at 9:00 am. Planned route, unless you can convince me otherwise is:

Lucas Valley - Nicasio - Wilson Hill - Chileno Valley - Tomales (for lunch) returning via Samuel Taylor/Lagunitas or Marshall wall (in reverse).

Mileage will be 50-60 depending on route.

Maybe we'll see penguins en route ... (photo courtesy of William's trip to Antarctica.) But if not, I can promise llama and sheep viewing.

-ladybird