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The Konik horse is a direct descendant of the now extinct European horse, the Tarpan. 250 Konik horses and an even larger herd of Highland cattle roam the National Park Lauwersmeer to keep the grass short and give plants, birds and insects the chance to settle. These animals are pretty wild and best watched from a respectful distance. Feeding and petting can interfere with their natural instincts.
Een konik is van oorsprong een in Polen en Wit-Rusland gehouden paardenras. Het konikpaard heeft geen verzorging nodig en kan het hele jaar vrij rondlopen. Om deze reden wordt het dier vaak ingezet voor begrazing in natuurgebieden in Nederland. De konik is nauw verwant aan de tarpan, een oorspronkelijk wild paard.
Gerben Poortinga introduceerde voor het eerst in 1981 de konik in het natuurbeheer. Poortinga eiste van de beheerders dat strikt natuurlijke kuddevorming, zonder "dierverzorgende" maatregelen, zou plaatsvinden en dat overbevolking uitsluitend aselect en op basis van ecologische ontwikkelingen van het gebied zouden plaatsvinden. Aan de kwaliteit van de konikspaarden op de Ennemaborg is dat nog steeds te zien. Naar aanleiding van het succes van de natuurontwikkeling op landgoed de Ennemaborg wordt het ras nu gebruikt in Europese natuurreservaten als de Oostvaardersplassen voor begrazingsdoeleinden. Hiermee functioneert de konik als een van de grote grazers van Europa. Ook in alle omringende landen is de beheersvisie nu op grote schaal overgenomen en toegepast. [Wikipedia]
I worked as a volunteer for the Cascade Crest 100 the weekend of 27-28 August 2016. This is the only photo from a great weekend, I was packing gear down from the Thorp aid station, which was at Mile 86 of the race. You can see we had some nice views, that is Mount Stuart in the background.
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My friend Jeff asked me if I'd like to be a volunteer at the Kachess Lake Aid Station (Mile 69) for the 2016 Cascade Crest 100. I headed over to the race headquarters in Easton, Washington fire station from my house near Seattle about noon on Saturday. On the way, I saw my friends Roger and Linda, they were off to volunteer at the Keechelus Lake Aid station (mile 60). I helped them load a few supplies and bid them goodbye.
We picked up supplies for our aid station from the Easton fire station at 3 PM and transporting them to the site Jeff already had staked out along the (dusty) road next to Kachess Lake. I was truly impressed by the logistics of the race. We set up the aid station, one area I worked quite a bit was the runner's drop bags (supplies they had set up in advance to have when they reach the aid station). After setup, we did a short hike along the course, setting up a skeleton decoration and hanging some glow sticks.
The first runner arrived at our aid station at 8:37 PM. After that, we had runners arriving sporadically through the night, more than 120 runners in all. We had chairs set up, hot food and would fetch what they needed, including drop bags. These runners are all remarkable; they exhibit tenacity - a don't quit attitude that I admire.
In between, I got to know some of my fellow volunteers (Norma, Bob, Lindsay, Mark, Karl, Megan, Felicia, Wes) . Jeff had provided an interesting music mix and Christmas lights, it was an all-night party. Bob provided communications via amateur radio and Wes was able to text runner status. It is important to know when each runner enters and leaves an aid station.The cutoff for the last runner was 8 AM and after that we closed up shop and tore down the aid station, bringing the gear back to Easton and offloading at the fire station.
I took at nap for about an hour and then met up with Daniel, another volunteer. We had signed up to help haul supplies out of the remote aid station at Thorp. It was a great two mile hike up to Thorp Aid station (mile 87 of the race). We met with Sharon and her team and had time to take a hike up to Thorp Peak. Had some great views of Mount Rainier, Cascades - including Mount Daniel. This is a hike I'd like to repeat. After our hike, we packed supplies down to Know Creek trailhead. I then dropped Daniel in Easton, where runners where still crossing the finish line at 33 hours into the race. From there, I headed home, it was a long few days but a lot of fun with a great group of people.
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Today Caitriona Jennings (Rathfarnam AC) won the Flora Women’s Mini-Marathon. The 30-year-old from Letterkenny crossed the line in a time of 35m29s.
The Dublin Women's Mini Marathon, known currently as the Flora Women's Mini Marathon due to a title sponsorship deal, is an annual charity road race ran each June Bank Holiday Monday in Ireland. The event is an all-female mini marathon over 10 km in the country's capital, Dublin.
First run in 1983, this event has seen its numbers rise through the years, with 31,000 women recorded racing in 2001 and, for the sixth consecutive year, upwards of 40,000 women participating in the most recent mini-marathon on June 6th 2011. Those to have won the race include Kenya's Magdaline Chemjor and Irish Olympic silver medalist, Sonia O'Sullivan, whose 2000 record time of 31 minutes and 28 seconds has yet to be beaten. Over €123 million has been raised for charity and a total of over half a million women have run the race, some doing so each year since the beginning.
It is the biggest single day charity event in Ireland and the biggest all-female event of its type in the world.
Inspiriert durch Lichtblick! "Gegenüber" (Alternative)
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Inspired by Lichtblick! "counterpart" (alternative)
After arrival at Avimore station, LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 46512 "E. V. Cooper, Engineer" runs around its train prior to returning to Broomhill on the Strathspey Railway steam railway.
Braunton running round after hauling the last Torbay Express of the year at Temple Meads. Bristol, September 2013.
Had to use a really nasty ISO rating to freeze the movement as it backed through the dark station, but it cleaned up reasonably well.
Victoria station in the afternoon, everyone seems to be in a rush between trains.
Taken on iPhone 4s.
I know running shoes are not designed to be pretty, but I thing I just bought to most ugly pair available! Are your shoes even worse? Prove me, I don't believe a thing about it :)
dog - Golden Retriever - running - mountain - snow - Passo Tanamea - Friuli Venezia Giulia - Italy - white
Running dog is a pejorative term for an unprincipled person who helps or flatters those more powerful and often evil. It is a literal translation of the Chinese pejorative 走狗 (Chinese: zǒu gǒu), meaning a yes-man or lackey, and is derived from the tendency of dogs to follow after humans in hopes of receiving food scraps. Historian Yuan-tsung Chen notes that "In the West, a dog is a man's best friend; but in China, dogs are abject creatures. In Chinese, no idiomatic expression was more demeaning than the term 'running dogs.'"
Kahn and Etta come running along a fire trail through the bush.
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Plenty of plants here & Mistletoe flowering in the trees above.
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Another first for me. I saw this guy in the snow, and took some shots from distance. But then he came running down towards me. I wasn't quick enough to get many shots, but i'm over the moon with this one. As he got closer, he realised what i was, and ran off.
Muntjac deer are wild here, although not originally native to the UK.