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The 13th edition of running stuff from The Internets that is more interesting than my hypochondria injuries, complaints about spring, and barn raisings:

• Interview with an Angry Runner.  Learn how she got her running start by failing skipping.
• The Manly Runner is looking for a mate date.   Disclaimer: this link is not an endorsement, i.e. don’t sue me if it doesn’t work out.
• Rate your run, not with stars or smiley faces, but piles.  Of poop.  Example: this was a two-crap run.  It works for in the literal and the figurative.
• Dear parents, thank you for giving me butt chafe resistant genes.  No long run lube required.
• Does anybody really know what time it is?  The guy who fixed the finish line clock. 
• The big bad Boston Marathon list.  I’m checking it twice.  And I’ll probably still forget something critical.  Like my shoes.
• Injured and constipated?  Blame your antibiotics.  And get some taco bell.
• Reason #48 I don’t like treadmills: the guess who farted game.  I haven’t mastered my “you’re disgusting” look.
• As I drag Husband to another country to watch me run a marathon he’s narrowly missed qualifying for a zillion times Shelby reminds me how lucky I am for this and a million other favours.  I don’t make him wake up early on his day off, but I do make him watch for thugs during my midnight runs.
• Hallelujah, syrup is good for me.  Move over blueberries.
• It may be called Heartbreak Hill, but it won’t break your heart.  Unless you are 1 in 374,000.  What are the odds?  Oh, right, 1 in 374,000.
• If you were a robot you could talk to your treadmill.  Asking about the last time it was greased sounds kind of dirty …
• Drew Carey, Price is Right host replacement, is running the Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon.  This is only news worthy because he’s a celebrity.  His level of fame is related to his placement on this list.

This week you get both sides of the tape.  You are welcome.

• One of my favourite run bloggers discovers that running is as serious as a heart attack.  And that running saved his life.
• The training menu.  An 8 mile appetizer and 16 mile main course.  What’s for dessert?
• Bad news for runners.  The earth is now a windier place.
• A 33 mile run around Manhattan.  Around, in this instance, is literal.
• Dear Race Director, your course is long.  Dear runner, no it is not.
• A health and wellness junkie hooks up with Lululemon.  Was it a one night stand or the start of a long-term relationship?
• One runner’s goal: to run fast enough to get her name on the front of her shirt.  That would be cool.
• The M word.  Seem like everyone is doing it.  Some people are still thinking about doing it.  No longer for folks so serious they will poop their pants. 
• It starts with running through a race (side note: this is one of my favourite excerpts from Once a Runner), moves to the Runner’s Code of Conduct in talking about training, and ends with intellectual property rights. 
• Sometimes even smart runners **** up.  Seriously, I rarely swear.  It’s weird to even swear-write.  That explains the ****.
• The rise of the gimmick runners.  What about media attention for the rest of us?
• Science! Of bears!  They are so much more evolved than us non-bear mammals.  If I was a bear I probably never would have had those three stress fractures back in 2005 and 2006. 
• All those things that go inevitably go wrong before your tune-up run … it’s training for all the things that will inevitably go wrong before your A race.
• The 10% rule explained.  I won’t spoil the ending, but it involves sissies.
• I typically leave world events and other not running stuff out of this blog.  But a long run is a long time to think about such things, like the joy of a spring run backdropped by a disaster half a world away.
• The NYC Half Marathon, through the eyes of a course marshal.  I’ve done my share of volunteering.  Indeed, I think all runners should volunteer.  As a bonus, it will make you feel AWESOME.