A chance glance at a local newspaper, while checking for path conditions in the Zigzag Ranger station, made me aware of a local race taking place next to our vacation rental in Mount Hood Village! I first registered for the 5K then upgraded for the 10K, as the half-marathon sounded too much, esp. after an 18K fast training three days earlier… The route was nice, with two big hills and trees all around. I kept the first runner in my radar for the first seven kilometres but he then took off and won by almost two minutes. Very happy with the result, though, despite running the 5K and 10K more slowly than in Caen last month, where the altitude differential was much more modest. Too bad the tee-shirt is not that great! But the organising team was very friendly and excited at having an international participant to the races, for the very first time.
Archive for tee-shirt
2024 Huckleberry Running Festival 10K [39:28, 2nd/97, +174m, 18⁰]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags 10k, Caen, Grand Master, half-marathon, hiking, huckleberry, JSM 2024, Les Courants de la Liberté, local race, Mount Hood, Oregon, podium, road race, tee-shirt, USA, vacations, Welches, Zigzag on August 16, 2024 by xi'anþe norse farce [re-explained]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags brands, logo, Normandy, North, Olso, Oseberg Ship, pun, tee-shirt, Teespring, The Norse Farce, Viking helmet, Viking longship, Vikingskiphuset, William the Conqueror, workshop on April 1, 2024 by xi'an
As I was quizzed about the meaning of þe norse farce logo (on both my tee-shirt and my laptop) at a recent workshop (and as befits the day!), let me recall here it is a multilevel pun mostly centred at myself and neither at a famous outdoor brand or at Norsemen! It started with my wearing apparels from said brand often enough to attract jokes from colleagues and with my misreading its logo as a Viking helmet, rather than the iconic Half-Dome in Yosemite I visited years later. Following several attempts at creating a logo that drifted oceans away from the original trademark, I drew the above from a figurehead near the Oseberg ship in the Vikingskiphuset and with the help of a few friends, ended up with the above, where absolutely no component (font, color, text, logo) was pilfered in the process! I also took advantage of one of the numerous make-your-own-tee websites to create a Norse Farce shop(pe) for afficionadas and afficionados..!
the T-shirts I love [book/closet review]
Posted in Books, Kids, Running, Travel with tags amazon associates, book review, Clachaig Inn, Glencoe, Haruki Murakami, longhorn, ochre, Salt Lake City, Scotland, surfing, tee-shirt, The University of Texas at Austin, ye Norse farce, Yellowstone national park on December 26, 2022 by xi'an
When I first heard of Haruki Murakami’s book on tee-shirts, I found the concept sufficiently intriguing to start looking for the book and I eventually found on Amazon a cheap used sale that got delivered to a friend in the US (who was most perplexed by my choice!). Having gone through the book and its 110 photos of tee-shirts, I am feeling like I had a light late-evening conversation with the author and a window into the reasons why he keeps and seeks so many tees. This is a translation from Japanese, so I cannot say how colloquial Murakami was in the original, but this is most enjoyable (in a very light sense!). Having worn tee-shirts for all of my adult life (and none during my childhood), albeit not with any comparable collection, by far!, I can relate with some categories like
- race tees (which have now almost completely vanished, being replaced with synthetic running tops), of which my favourite is the 1988 Skunk Cabbage Classic tee celebrating the 5k race organised every year by the Finger Lakes Runners Club
- beer tees, like my favourites advertising Yellowstone’s Moose Drool brown ale [and supposedly dyed in the beer?!] and Salt Lake City Full Suspension [with the fantastically ironic motto Beers you can believe in!]
- bars/pubs tees, like the one I bought at the Clachaig Inn, Glencoe
- institution tees, with my favourite being the iconic U of T Austin ochre shirt with a longhorn skull
- and, to diverge from Murakami’s surfing section, mountaineering places/brand tees, of which the homemade þe Norse Farce is the obvious selection!
And neither shared tee spotted within the published 110 selected ones, nor any one I would desperately seek.
þe norse farce shoppe
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags black Friday, brands, CIRM, logo, Luminy, Normandy, North, outdoor, pun, summer school, tee-shirt, Teespring, The Norse Farce, Université Aix Marseille, Viking helmet, Viking longship, William the Conqueror, workshop on November 27, 2020 by xi'anAs an on-going multilevel pun (started with my misreading a famous outdoor brand logo as a Viking helmet!), and following popular request (at least from a few participants to our Bayesian school at CIRM two years ago!), I took advantage of one of the numerous make-your-own-tee websites to create a norse farce shop(pe) for afficionadas and afficionados..!
an oldie but a goldie [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, University life with tags Banff, Banff Mountain Festival, BIRS, Canada, Canadian Rockies, Cerro Torre, jatp, Patagonia, tee-shirt on March 19, 2020 by xi'an
