Greenland has no real cities. The biggest town has fewer than 20k residents. People are poor and rates of depression are high. Many who can, move away to Denmark. Its so cold that trees don't even grow there. Fishing, mining, and tourism are the biggest industries. Unlike Iceland, most Greenlanders are not rich enough to move away for the winter. Despite all of this, almost none of them want to be Americans. Denmark invests heavily in Greenland, way more than the US does in its territories.
Greenland has no real cities. The biggest town has fewer than 20k residents. People are poor and rates of depression are high. Many who can, move away to Denmark. Its so cold that trees don't even grow there. Fishing, mining, and tourism are the biggest industries. Unlike Iceland, most Greenlanders are not rich enough to move away for the winter. Despite all of this, almost none of them want to be Americans. Denmark invests heavily in Greenland, way more than the US does in its territories.
the great irony of it all is people tried very hard to get there, and must have had doubts along the way about why the hell they wanted to.
No Greenland, but ran a race in Iceland 3:43 1500.
Sounds like you haven't been to Humbleland either😉
WTF is that? I've run a race in Iceland. In fact, the meet promoter said he's never seen a windless day in Iceland until that day. 30 years later I was at a barbecue and was told by Bob Hodge that a guy who was coming was in that race. I said, "no way, Iceland, 30 years ago?" Hodgie said, "yes. He's the Icelandic record-holder." A tall lanky blond dude shows up and it turns out, HE WAS in the race!" He said, "you know what I remember about that day? No wind." I jumped out of my chair screaming, "NO WIND!"
If you want to know what Mars looks like, then go to Iceland.
Sounds like you haven't been to Humbleland either😉
WTF is that? I've run a race in Iceland. In fact, the meet promoter said he's never seen a windless day in Iceland until that day. 30 years later I was at a barbecue and was told by Bob Hodge that a guy who was coming was in that race. I said, "no way, Iceland, 30 years ago?" Hodgie said, "yes. He's the Icelandic record-holder." A tall lanky blond dude shows up and it turns out, HE WAS in the race!" He said, "you know what I remember about that day? No wind." I jumped out of my chair screaming, "NO WIND!"
If you want to know what Mars looks like, then go to Iceland.
I was just being dumb. That's cool you got to visit Iceland, let alone race there. That's a great story too! Pretty sweet.
I was just being dumb. That's cool you got to visit Iceland, let alone race there. That's a great story too! Pretty sweet.
That's cool. Another thing, Icelandic bars are wild. Imagine a Biker Bar and a Caveman Bar put together. I wondered where to check in my club? Bjork will finally make sense to you if you visit, which should be on everyone's bucket list.
I've been a couple of times to south Greenland. It IS green there - they have farms and raise a lot of sheep and there's a couple of places where they are (re) introducing cattle farms. The grass grows well in the sheltered inland southern fjords. It's the only part of Greenland where this happens, but it's where the original.Norse settlers went. There's forests in the Kalluaq valley near the airport and near former Gardar.
This part of Greenland is well below the Arctic circle le and on the same latitude as parts of Europe and Scandinavia where there are towns. Some very nice small towns there like Quaqortoq, clean and tidy with a reasonable range of shops and a few hotels and nice people who speak English. Although most people are more fluent in Danish. Many mixed race Danish and Inuit people and most people are well educated. My Inuit guide had piercing blue eyes and had travelled extensively. He u said that he usually went to Spain on holiday but had also been to south America, England and many other places.
I need to go back! I haven't been to Nuuk yet but I like the south so much and there's a lot more to explore. It's great for hiking as the only roads outside the towns tend not to be tarmacced so you can use them, and in summer in the south it's often quite dry. In fact their main problem is a lack of rainfall in some years so the grass doesn't grow well and it reduces their winter hay crop.
Warm week coming up in Nuuk as the temperature will reach 38 one day. Only 6 days of snow in the next 7 too. Just a little taste of summer conditions as in July, the warmest month, the average high is 52.
Sounds like you haven't been to Humbleland either😉
WTF is that? I've run a race in Iceland. In fact, the meet promoter said he's never seen a windless day in Iceland until that day. 30 years later I was at a barbecue and was told by Bob Hodge that a guy who was coming was in that race. I said, "no way, Iceland, 30 years ago?" Hodgie said, "yes. He's the Icelandic record-holder." A tall lanky blond dude shows up and it turns out, HE WAS in the race!" He said, "you know what I remember about that day? No wind." I jumped out of my chair screaming, "NO WIND!"
If you want to know what Mars looks like, then go to Iceland.
I would assume that you raced in Reykjavik, but Iceland has some tracks with really beautiful settings. And yes, it seems to usually be windy and raining! There is also a nice 200m banked indoor track in RVK now as well.
The analogy to Mars is fairly spot on, though truly an amazing country with quite a lot of culture and tradition. Interestingly, there have been a couple of good middle distance runners from ISL, most recently an 800m woman whose name escapes me.
Sounds like you haven't been to Humbleland either😉
WTF is that? I've run a race in Iceland. In fact, the meet promoter said he's never seen a windless day in Iceland until that day. 30 years later I was at a barbecue and was told by Bob Hodge that a guy who was coming was in that race. I said, "no way, Iceland, 30 years ago?" Hodgie said, "yes. He's the Icelandic record-holder." A tall lanky blond dude shows up and it turns out, HE WAS in the race!" He said, "you know what I remember about that day? No wind." I jumped out of my chair screaming, "NO WIND!"
If you want to know what Mars looks like, then go to Iceland.
When I went there, it was full of greenery. There were huge redwood forests with woolly mammoths roaming the plains. We kept away from the rivers as they are known to be teeming with huge crocodiles. The highlight of our trip was a brontosaurus sighting.
WTF is that? I've run a race in Iceland. In fact, the meet promoter said he's never seen a windless day in Iceland until that day. 30 years later I was at a barbecue and was told by Bob Hodge that a guy who was coming was in that race. I said, "no way, Iceland, 30 years ago?" Hodgie said, "yes. He's the Icelandic record-holder." A tall lanky blond dude shows up and it turns out, HE WAS in the race!" He said, "you know what I remember about that day? No wind." I jumped out of my chair screaming, "NO WIND!"
If you want to know what Mars looks like, then go to Iceland.
I would assume that you raced in Reykjavik, but Iceland has some tracks with really beautiful settings. And yes, it seems to usually be windy and raining! There is also a nice 200m banked indoor track in RVK now as well.
The analogy to Mars is fairly spot on, though truly an amazing country with quite a lot of culture and tradition. Interestingly, there have been a couple of good middle distance runners from ISL, most recently an 800m woman whose name escapes me.
Yes, Reykjavik, of course. Which was gray and dreary, but all of the buildings were painted in colors of the full Crayola spectrum. The ride from Keflavík Airport was like driving on the moon. Moon or Mars, what's the difference?
That tall Icelandic record-holder was Jón Diðriksson.
