SEATTLE FITNESS MAGAZINE

Aaron Long started an Instagram account called Cowgill in 2018, posting silly, deliberately non-elite trail running content out of Seattle: in-jokes, shenanigans, nothing that resembled a training log. For a few years, that's all it was. In the spring of 2021, Long and two friends, Rachel Dam and Brad Leatherbarrow, turned the account into actual trail runs, meeting up on trails around the city instead of just posting about them. The result, now called Cowgill Trail Collective, has grown into a free trail running group with no fee attached.

RunSignup lists two different closing times for online registration to the Space Needle's 10th annual Base 2 Space stair climb. One page, the event's own FAQ, sets the online cutoff at September 25, 11:59pm Pacific time, then reopens registration in person only, from 6:30 to 11am on the morning of the climb, Sunday, September 27. A separate registration page on the same platform lists a single deadline of 11am on September 27, the day of the event, without mentioning an earlier online window at all. That distinction is not cosmetic: under the FAQ's version, anyone signing up online loses that option after September 25, two days before the climb, and can only join in person, on the morning of September 27. Both pages come from the same organizer. Same platform. Neither has been fixed.

Braden Kelley manages commute options and transportation planning at the University of Washington. He does not soften it. His subject is the mile of the Burke-Gilman Trail that runs along the east side of campus, from Rainier Vista to NE 47th Street. "A little narrower and darker," he said of the mile. "There are roots coming up through the asphalt." He added that the stretch "doesn't feel as welcoming and it doesn't feel as safe." Kelley raised a second concern. People coming from the north or east side of Seattle, he said, might be less inclined to travel through that area to reach campus at all. That is the assessment from the university's own transportation office, and it now has a fix attached: a $12.3 million construction contract, awarded to Granite Construction with KPFF Civil as design partner, to rebuild the mile before it drives away any more of the people it is supposed to carry.

Connor Cox was leaving Seattle in 2018, and on April 21 he and his twin brother Ian ran one last loop between all five Dick's Drive-In counters in the city. How far they went depends on who tells it. The organizers' own history page and a post on Washington's National Park Fund both put the loop at 20 miles, and an older version of that history page, still live on the same domain, gives the same date and the same distance. A syndicated Yahoo News feature on the family calls it roughly 22, and nearly a perfect circle. The two figures have never been squared. Eight years later, on Saturday, October 17, 2026, that same loop runs as the Ian Cox Memorial Dick's-A-Thon, a 26.3-mile event with a $135 entry, a start line at The Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, and aid stations that are still fast-food windows. The distance grew. The reason changed entirely.

The room was already a yoga room. Danica Koos took the southwest corner of the ground floor at 3636 Stone Way N in Fremont and named what she put there Kora, after a Tibetan Buddhist practice of walking a circuit around a sacred place. Kora is unheated. The studio's own Instagram account posted on August 28 that all inspections had passed and gave opening day as August 29, 2026. The city file says the rest. Kora's build-out permit, record 7128389-CN, sits directly linked to an earlier permit for the same corner of the same building, and the tenant named on that earlier record is BALA YOGA. Bala Yoga's Fremont studio is closed. What went in instead is a narrow idea about temperature: no added heat, classes deliberately sized, mats and props laid out before anyone arrives. The permit covering all of it records no change of use and no change of occupancy.

Lap swim before 7am is the whole test, and Seattle Parks and Recreation set it themselves. A March 27, 2026 post on the department's Parkways blog said Evans and Medgar Evers pools, typically closed on Sundays, would add Sunday operations along with early morning lap swim in fall 2026. The fall schedules are now posted. Four of the city's indoor pools have one that could be located: Evans, Rainier Beach, Helene Madison and Southwest. A fifth, Meadowbrook, is still running a late-summer sheet. One of those five puts lap lanes in the water before 7am, and it is Meadowbrook, on a sheet that expires September 5. Evans, one of the two pools Parks named, is not it. Medgar Evers has no fall schedule posted anywhere this piece could reach, and the department's last public word on it, a May 6 aquatics bulletin, said the pool was closed for maintenance and anticipated reopening later in the summer. The promise lives on the blog. The hours live on the PDFs. They do not agree.