2025 Recap in Photos from Jake’s iPhone

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Timer Photo of the Fam Oct 2025

Here we have the Jake.News annual recap made of photos saved to my iPhone from the calendar year played at 1/4 of a second per frame. 2025 felt like a massive blur to me. I wish I had a better family photo to include here, but documenting life felt kind of like an afterthought in 2025. The premature passing of my younger sister is the event that stands out the most, to me. According to the video, the main other event in 2025 was taking selfies while running; yikes. There’s a lot of them. Definitely going to take that into consideration for this year if I happen to bring my phone with me on a a run. Anyway, Happy New Year!

 

No. 16

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Left: The Author at 5th Ave. and 109 (courtesy: M. Goodman Private Collection) | Right: Photo of NYT 2025 Marathon Section

The New York City Marathon is a pretty special race. This is my extremely biased opinion, but I’m not the only person who would tell you this. I have a couple of friends who have run upwards of 80 marathons (a piece) around the globe who echo this sentiment. One could literally write an entire book about the experiences and observations that transpire from running the NYC Marathon; everything from achieving entry to the race, through waking up months later and wondering if it was all a dream. Alas, apparently no one really reads books anymore. No one really reads blogs anymore, either. But I’ll continue to publish this nonsense anyway. Let’s go-Continue reading→

Nike Zegama 2 Trail Shoes

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Some Crappy Iphone Photos of the Author’s Zegama Trail Shoes

I’ll start off here with a disclaimer, that this post is not sponsored content in any fashion. I paid full retail price for these shoes. Similar to the Wildhorse, I picked these up with the winter months in mind. I was particularly drawn to them by the sub $150 price point and the Vibram sole. I have worn them on a number of trail runs in the Catskills this fall, starting with an 18 miler and a 10 miler in pretty quick sequence.Continue reading→

Write a ‘Good’ Essay and Win This Bike

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Trixie on Howard St. Circa 2012

The alternate title to this post could be “Please Help Me Feel Okay About Parting Ways With an Old Friend.” Even looking at the photo above makes me feel all kinds of ways about this bike. She was an integral part of my life for the better part of a decade. The bike originally belonged to one of my best friends (yes, an actual human) who left her in my care prior to decamping to Italy for work, shortly after the onset of the great recession. My friend and I met as colleagues in the early aughts and quickly learned that we enjoyed many of the same hobbies, including cycling. When the bottom fell out of the economy he shipped over seas to work and I was charged with the custody of ‘Trixie’ (the fixie), an SE Draft that my friend had purchased on a whim from one of those bike shops on Grand St. that has been around since before they started construction on Sty-town.Continue reading→

New Rig

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Author’s Newish R5 MkII with EF Mount Adapter and 50mm f/1.2L

I love SLR cameras. I was a slow convert when film gave way to digital. Similarly, when mirrorless cameras became the standard, I resisted for several years. Earlier this year, I finally pulled the trigger on an R5. There were a series of preceding events that catalyzed the shift. First, the dial that controls shutter speed on my 5d Mk IV started glitching. My guess is that too many instances of shooting in heavyish rain caused the contacts to oxidize or something. At any rate, I would have to scroll it 5 or 6 clicks to adjust 1 or 2 positions. Not ideal. Around the the same time, my knock around rig just generally shat the bed. If I had it’s power switched on and popped the battery in and out, it would work. But… not something I really had time to mess with.Continue reading→