Pictures from Ultra

The slideshow is online, thanks for race organizers for providing the pictures!

First Ultra (80 km) done! 27th of March, 2009

Just for the sake of change it is going to be a loo-o-ong post and not really family oriented -- feel free to skip it ;-)

This is my first try at a race report that covers my second official race (here is the first one) and my first ultra -- 80km run. It was a trail running event (defined as a "cross country adventure race") organized by Carin Goldblatt and her company Pro-sport. The elevation profile of the race looks far from boring (see below).

11km walk along HaShofet Stream

This Saturday we had a very beautiful walk along the stream near our place ( see pictures at KodakGallery ). The weather was hot and sunny -- real summer! and after two weeks of rains there was plenty of water in the streams. Flowers were plentiful and colors were well represented... In a few word we enjoyed it a LOT!

One more judo competition, one more gold to Michael!

Congratulations again to Michael, he had won one more competition on the 1st of March. Pictures are again at KodakGallery.
Video of the fist and second fights are online as well.

Bouldering in Haifa

I've put online one more recent set of pictures. I've taken Michael to bouldering (at XPark in Haifa -- "kir Yoav") and it seems that we'll be doing it more. He enjoys it enough to get back even with sore hands and fingers.

Desert @ full moon

So it did happen: I could not resist the temptation and ran official race which was held in the Dead Sea area. It was a 30K night run in the beautiful desert with landscapes illuminated by the full moon.
Many runners still used headlights, while others, including me, enjoyed the natural moonlit surroundings. I did not really "race" it -- the purpose was to enjoy it as much as possible.

The group of fast runners even honoured my tradition of getting lost on the trails and of course I've followed them, but not the whole way -- I am not the fastest. My route from garmin can be found at MotioneBased.

Nice video from the event can be found at flix.

Michael won one more competition!

Michael got his next gold medal in judo competition that took place on the 16th of November. The pictures are @ kodak gallery.
There are also 2 videos: first fight and the second.

Vacation in Israel, May 2008

We had an amaizing vacation during 17->25 May with our guests from Moscow, pictures from the trip are at Kodak site. We covered several places in Israel during this week: Qumeran caves, Ein Gedi streams, Dead Sea, Rosh HaNikra grottos, Eilat, Red Sea and Red Canyon... Every place is beautiful by its own way

Rosh HaNikra trip (May 10)

We had visited Rosh HaNikra for the first time on the weekend of the 10th of May. The weather was just perfect -- sunny but not hot. There were plenty of hyrax families enjoying themselves on the rocks besides the entrance to the grottoes. The pictures are @ KodakGallery.

Nahal Taninim (Crocodile stream)

There are no more crocodiles on this stream nowadays, but there were plenty of birds, beautiful beach, horses, gees and nature all around! Have a look at few other pictures.