Scott Betterton's Living in Alaska Blog
Working and working out in Galena, Alaska
Galena style triathlon The weather cooperated today for the Galena Sheefish triathlon. This triathlon consists of canoeing, biking and running. We had a fair amount of wildfire smoke but at least the mosquitoes weren’t too bad. Hope you enjoy some of the photo’s I took of this event.
Rainy summer I actually had big plans for this summer. There were a lot of home improvement projects we wanted to do but as everyone knows the price of lumber went up to levels that made anything other than emergency repairs impractical. I also had planned to go out in my boat quite a bit… Continue reading Rainy summer, injuries and learning to run with a sled dog.
The weather has really warmed up in the last week. It’s in the 30’s or 40’s at night but gets up to the mid-60’s during the day. For us that is really warm. Mosquito’s are out but still manageable right now, that will change. I’ve been doing most of my runs during the day. I… Continue reading Warm spring weather in Galena
I saw the first barge of the year as I was running home from work and had to stop and take a picture. Yesterday there was a significant amount of driftwood in the river and a fair amount of ice mixed in. The river seemed to be mostly clear of drift today but that normally… Continue reading First Barge of 2021
Shortly after my last post the ice on the river here at Galena moved far enough for the tripod to fall. I didn’t go near the river till Monday morning so I wasn’t aware of it until I was running in to work. I stopped long enough to take a couple of pictures with my… Continue reading Yukon River Breakup in Progress
So here we are in Oklahoma city. The flights down were uneventful. We moved into our hotel home for the next several days. Lynn had her knee replacement surgery on Tuesday and all went well. She used the same surgeon that did the other knee. No real issues except that she had to spend an… Continue reading Lynn Update
I’ve mostly been running on a treadmill this week. As much as I detest running on those, it is just hard to get motivated to run outside when it is -30F and colder. I know I should, but I chickened out and ran inside on the coldest days. Some places have treadmills that are positioned… Continue reading Back outside for a while, (I hope)
I know I didn’t post last week, Lynn and I had gone to the pool workout room to finish out the weeks training, and when we got back home we had lost our satellite connection due to some heavy cloud cover. Not that uncommon, I didn’t feel like getting up a couple of hours early… Continue reading More running, some moose pictures and a recipe
Lynn and I had a quiet Christmas at home with Snowball. Christmas day we were able to talk to all of our children which was nice. Other than our usual run workout we spent the day catching up with people on the phone and generally taking it easy. I took the dog out early Christmas… Continue reading Christmas at home, heading into the new year.
Busy at work Lynn and I have both had a busy week at work. The final days before the Christmas and New Years break are always busy. The weather also turned a tad cold as well. Both of these combined to play havoc with our workout schedules but we improvised and got everything done. I’ll… Continue reading Running in the cold, lengthening days and the upcoming holidays.
