Josh McHugh

Oscar Pistorius can run!

Link: The Times - Oscar Pistorius wins his appeal.

Now for the sweaty part - Oscar has to cut a second off his best time.

I think he can do it.

Strong Finish

This here is a shout out to my man Jeff Curran, which is not easy for me to do, seeing as he has spent the last 20 years breaking and spraining my bones and ankles with bizarre, unorthodox, aggressive moves on the lacrosse field and in the pub.

But Jeffy pulled off something sort of amazing on Sunday in his first Ironman triathlon. he finished the swim in 505th place, got on his bike and lost a little ground, starting the marathon in 515th place. Then this freak of nature proceeded to pass 307 other tough motherscratchers in the marathon, which he finished in 3:40.

Here's the breakdown : Arizona - IRONMAN.com.

Private Air

In the midst of the madcap rewrite of the Wired scraping story, I made a weekend run to Maui to impersonate a guy with the kind of money to be able to stay at the Kapalua resort and charter a helicopter to surf the far side of Molokai, all by way of doing this story for Private Air magazine.

Sorry about the required sign-up, but it might be worth it: you'll get to see the bigger version of the picture above, my first on-wave photo, published or otherwise. If you look closely enough, you'll note the fresh Quiksilver boardshorts. [Tom Taylor - I'm waiting for my sponsor check...]. You'll also, unfortunately, be able to see my kooked-out, stiff-legged backside turning style.

-excellent action photos by Michael Darter, snapper extra-ordinaire

surfing with Peng

I had a dream in Hawaii that I went surfing with Li Peng. He was cool, in the dream. Not great at answering questions, but stoked after his surf.

NYT on Oscar Pistorius

The NYT catches up with Oscar Pistorius at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, England.

Link: An Amputee Sprinter: Is He Disabled or Too-Abled? - New York Times.

If you're not registered with the NYT and you don't want to go through their annoying sign-up process, get a temporary username and password from the slightly less-annoying bugmenot

Happy Kidney Bruise

  Happy Kidney Bruise 
  Originally uploaded by sp0re.

This is not a tattoo. Not an ink-based one, anyway. Picked it up in the first quarter of yesterday's lacrosse game against the Olympic Club. Closeups available - click here to see more of it on flickr.

TV piece on Oscar Pistorius

Here's a decent TV news piece on Pistorius and the IAAF's move to ban him from the Olympics:

Australian Sports radio - interview re: Pistorius

Australia's ABC radio interviewed me about Pistorius, and the show aired last Friday. You can listen to the interview and read the transcript of the show at the Sports Factor site.

Pistorius story is up

My piece for Wired on Oscar Pistorius is on the web here. There are some photos that weren't in the hard copy version and some video of him running as well.

Ocean Beach at its best

It was a phenomenal weekend at Ocean Beach. Not too big, not too small - just right. Great pictures courtesy of J.R. Hussey on display here.

For scale, note the surfer just to the foreground of the outer wave's foam-ball.