Say Hello To John

 I need to introduce you all to John Ingham. 

I was introduced to John via a mutual acquaintance  and gravel event promoter, Trenton Raygor of the Filthy Fifty. He told me about John, his background, and how John had a desire to contribute to the gravel riding and racing folks via his writing. 

I decided to check John's chops out and I was blown away. John is a LOT smarter than I and writes at a much higher level than I ever could hope to. It's "college level" reading, annotated, researched.... It's scholarly stuff, but John makes it relevant and more importantly, he will make you think, in my opinion.

But instead of having me blather on about John's background and credentials, I asked John himself if he would like to provide us all here with some information about himself. He graciously agreed to do just that and following now is John's bio for you all to read. 

  "John is 83 now and still riding, despite getting longer in the tooth. He is a retired--one might say, reformed--anthropology professor. He did research in a rural village in the central highlands of Mexico, and specialized in thinking about the interrelation of personality and culture, with passing interest in medical and biological anthropology. 

John has been drawn to adventure since he was a boy in Southern California. as a teenager, among other things, he did spearfishing trips to the gulf of Mexico and scrambled on local rocks. He has enjoyed running, skiing, wilderness canoeing, backpacking, cycling, and especially rock climbing and mountaineering. He gave up climbing eight years ago when his hands became too arthritic and took up gravel riding instead. Being way up there and way out there are about as good as it gets for him

He is married to Mary Grove. They have a son and daughter and three grandchildren, with a fourth, "little bro," on the way, ETA just after Christmas."

Okay, now I will wrap this up and let you know that John has one of his amazing papers to share with us which I plan on running this Saturday, December 2nd. It's going to be a long read, so make sure you have everything settled in, maybe even an extra large java for this one!