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And they’re still running today

Posted on January 26, 2012 | 10 Comments

I wish I could claim to have found this one my own. I am, however, going to spend the next three evenings on google images looking for more retro running pics, because this is so amazing. Continue reading →

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Mix Tape Volume 21

Posted on December 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

Around this time last year I started the mix tape.  The original goal was to post a new mix weekly, but sporadically seems to suit me better. I can’t be confined by a calendar.  This week is the best yet.  (Like every good reality TV show, I’m going to make this promise every week). Continue reading →

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There is unrest in the forest

Posted on November 21, 2011 | 12 Comments

Longtime readers may recall that I cancelled my cable subscription 9 months ago for two reasons:  to save money and to reduce my time-consuming TV viewing habit.  Continue reading →

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Gotta blame it on something

Posted on November 8, 2011 | 17 Comments

A lot of celebrities run the NYC marathon.  I’ve even heard of some of them. This year famous NYCM runners included singer Mya (6.59.39), athlete Apolo Ohno (3.25.14), model Christy Turlington (4.20.47), and actor/host Mario Lopez. Continue reading →

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Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted

Posted on November 5, 2011 | 4 Comments

On Halloween I dressed as a slutty sexy runner* and went for a run.  My sexy runner costume and come-hither ”catch us if you can” t-shirt was accessorized by the four men that surrounded me.  Continue reading →

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I do believe I’m feeling stronger every day

Posted on November 2, 2011 | 5 Comments

My parents are moving.  Their home is my childhood storage locker.  Somewhere in the teenage wasteland I left behind lies an exercise secret:  Continue reading →

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Daniel you’re a star in the face of the sky

Posted on October 23, 2011 | 2 Comments

A new edition to my favourite running route: Continue reading →

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You came in with the breeze on Sunday morning

Posted on June 28, 2011 | 8 Comments

30 years ago today.  I’m still awed by him.  An older and wiser and wrinkled awed.  It has, afterall, been 30 years.  Continue reading →

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If you ain’t running game say my name

Posted on April 14, 2011 | 6 Comments

This is my horn.

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.

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Warm beer and bread they said could raise the dead

Posted on March 21, 2011 | 13 Comments

Have you ever been asked that old nugget, if you could invite five people, living or dead, to dinner who would you invite and why?  Yeah, I hate that question too.  Let’s play, with the obvious running twist.  I’ll go first.

1. Terry Fox – Why?  Childhood hero.  I once went to a museum to look at his shoes.  So yeah, I’m a fan.

2. Jacqueline Gareau - Why?  She’s the one that Rosie Ruiz totally screwed over and she handled it with grace.

3. Simon Whitfield – Why?  My enormous crush He stars in one of my favourite Olympic moments and is the only person on the list I’ve run with FOR REAL. 

4. Roger Bannister - Why?  Science geek and runner.  Just like me.  Except for the neurologist and record breaking parts.

5. Roger Robinson – Why?  I love his articles on running and I think he’d be good at filling those inevitable awkward silences at the dinner table.

And if any of them send their regrets,

Tom Longboat - Why?  Controversy and stories of intrigue followed him as he raced – and often bested – the greats of the time (Shrubb, Pietri). 

 

Your turn!  (Conveniently bolded and exclamation marked so you know to reply.  Even if you only want one guest.  I know it’s a lot of work to host a dinner party, even an imaginary one with dead invitees).

 

Title: Jimmy Buffett – Cheeseburger in Paradise.  1978.

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