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In February WordPress (my blog host) started tracking country stats. Since that time, runners from 82 countries have stumbled across this blog.
I won!
No, not a race. Not the way I’m dragging my sorry chocolate covered almond filled butt around lately. No, not a real award. A blog award. The Liebster Award. Running Farce, a blogger with exceptional talent and good taste, bestowed the honour to My Running Shorts with these moving words: Continue reading
Hundreds of YouTube videos can’t be wrong. People say sh!t. Even runners. Especially runners?
It’s getting to close to the end of another year and once the holiday madness is over talk will inevitably turn to the best of and the worst of the last twelve months. This blog will be no exception.
To kick start recap season, I present my favorite video clip of the year – despite initial disappointment. It’s called Toronto Tempo. So I thought it was about running. Continue reading
Those of you who read this blog the old-fashioned way may have noticed a recent addition to the page: Powered By. Lucky me, Clif Bar gives me tasty pre/during/post run fuel in exchange for being awesome.
Lucky you, Clif Bar gave me a selection of product and swag to share. I promise, I won’t make you gush about how much you love Clif Bars or pick your favourite flavour of Clif Blok or tell me a story about how you totally ran a PB eating Clif Shots to enter the draw. Continue reading
I like you so much I’ve made you 20 mixed tapes in the last year. On each one I signed the cover with a heart over the i.
I haven’t checked the email account linked to this blog since I moved in the spring. I forgot my password along with my old address. I’m feeling guilty. Perhaps there are tens of burning questions from loyal readers sitting unanswered in my inbox.
Posted in Running Tids & Bits
This is a super-sized edition - I spent some time cleaning up my bookmarks and transferring to a new feed and I’m too lazy to edit down to the best it’s all worth reading. Continue reading
Posted in Mixed Tapes
Tagged blog, exercise, fitness, health, marathon, running, trail running
I don’t do things health and fitness bloggers are supposed to do. Mostly because I’m not a health and fitness blogger or healthy lifestyle blogger or whatever they are called. I write about running or – if I’m desperate for content – topics I can six degree of separation relate back to running. At best that makes me a run blogger, at worst a boring blogger. Continue reading
Posted in Running Tids & Bits
A selection of articles from around the Internets that every runner should read. Each one guaranteed* to make you run faster. Continue reading
Posted in Mixed Tapes, Running Tids & Bits
Tagged blog, cookies, exercise, fitness, food, Garmin, gear, health, marathon, running, sport psychology
I apologize in advance. Time for some shameless self promotion personal branding lame linking to myself spreading of the word. My word. The word about me. I’m no Dean Karnazes and I never will be because I have too much shameless and not enough promotion. Perhaps that’s not the only thing separating me and Dean, but that’s not important.
1. I tweet, twitter, and twat but I do not twist every word into a blue bird pun. I twomise.
2. You can like me. Officially. Publicly. On FaceBook.
3. I can be delivered right to your door. Like pizza. Assuming your door is an inbox. And the pizza is an email notification. So nothing like pizza delivery. Lower your expectations accordingly. In the right hand column is a box. Type in your email. Press sign me up. I never see your address. It’s anonymous. Or I’m just not savvy enough to know or care where to look.
4. If you use a news reader you can subscribe to my web feed. I’m not sure how to do this. Maybe someone else can tell you. I have a little gadget on my iPod that allows me to type in the URL and new posts magically appear on my wee screen. Good for readin’ not so good for replyin’.
Hey, it could be worse. At least I’m not I’m resorting to a GIVE IT AWAY GIVE IT AWAY GIVEAWAY contest with the worst assortment of prizes you could ever hope to win to garner attention. I’m fishing for attention the old fashion way. Through social media.
Title: Destiny’s Child – Say My Name. 2000.
Posted in Running Tids & Bits
The 13th edition of running stuff from The Internets that is more interesting than my hypochondria injuries, complaints about spring, and barn raisings:
This week you get both sides of the tape. You are welcome.
The 11th edition of the weekend mix tape. I have a strange affinity for numbers that are prime, palindrome, or repeating patterns. A palindromic prime, 11 is high on my list of likes. For you, 11 links from around the webs that will shock, amuse, or stimulate conversation on your next group run.
Another week, another mix tape. Just a few this week. A mixed “cassingle”. Seriously, remember those? If you want/need more, check out Mix Tapes 1-9.
Whoopsie. Adidas messes up the Boston Marathon jacket. Related story: Boston jacket sale!
Those crazy running dreams. Like showing up at a race naked late.
Signs a house is occupied by runners. Check, check, check, check ….
Stunt running by eating. Only at McDonald’s. For the 30 days before your race. McRunner (not my name for him, his name for him) wisely recommends you “don’t try this at home”. Or, I presume, at McDonald’s. Follow every bite and mile.
I’ve made the near fatal prerun mistake of eating like a python. Assuming pythons eat a dozen chocolate chip cookies before a hill training workout.
Posted in Mixed Tapes, Running Tids & Bits