Tag Archives: outdoor

It happened at an indoor wall for the sport of “bouldering”. I was standing watching some athletic young men conquer a tricky route that was beyond my abilities, half-listening to their banter, when I suddenly understood what they were discussing. A proposal to climb outdoors. They had never done it. …

The 2023 All-Southeastern Conference Outdoor Track & Field Teams have been announced following the SEC Championships last weekend

about an hour ago SEC Staff BATON ROUGE, La. (May 13, 2023)—–The Arkansas men and the Arkansas women claimed the 2023 Southeastern Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships here Saturday at Bernie Moore Track and Field Stadium. The Arkansas men won with 149 points, followed by LSU (89), Tennessee (87), …

about an hour ago SEC Staff Photo: SEC BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (May 10, 2023)—–Florida’s Talitha Diggs, Georgia’s Matthew Boling and Arkansas’ Ayden Owens-Delerme have been named the SEC Outdoor Track and Field Scholar-Athletes of the Year by a vote of the league head coaches. Diggs holds a 3.68 grade point average, …

[unpaid/affiliate] My garden solar lights are one of my great pleasures in life. I have some in the fig tree outside my kitchen window and on the patio area. I quite often give solar lights as gifts because they’re just so wonderful and my favourites are the Moroccan style lanterns …

about an hour ago SEC Staff Photo: SEC Men’s Runner of the Week  Da’Marcus Fleming, LSU Fleming, registered a pair of NCAA-leading times last week at the Hurricane Invitational. He placed first in the 100m with a time of 10.13 (+2.0) to rank first nationally. He was also a member …

It was a little after midnight when I heard footsteps approaching my bivvy bag. Normally when wild camping, a sound like this would cause me to sink further into my sleeping bag, hoping I wouldn’t be seen. Yet that night, sleeping on a hillside on the western escarpment of the …

This year is set to be the “year of the lido”, with three new or revamped outdoor baths due to open in England in 2023 and more communities across the UK agitating for the opportunity to swim in the open. What campaigners are dubbing the “lido revolution” has been given …

Modern life has almost eradicated mass uprisings of cheer – almost, but not quite, as there’s nothing like a group roar into a freezing sea to remind us that life is good. Communal swims have a slightly different feel depending on the day they take place – Christmas Day swims …

Then competing at the Nationals, they churned out historical performances. In the women’s 100m, the trio of Grace Nwokocha (North Carolina A&T), Rosemary Chukwuma (Texas Tech University), and Favour Ofili (Louisiana State University) ran brilliant times of 10.97s, 10.99s, and 11.08s respectively in their semis to make the final. Their …