He wore onesies. And he did pushups on his fingers. And he said that women can lift weights. And he lived to 96. Coincidence?
Note: The featured Face Workout counts as training under the No Training Marathon Training Program.
Title: The Who – Happy Jack. 1966.
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Who is the Utramarathon Man? Dean “Karno” Karnazes. I’m not one to shy away from controversy. So let’s start with the cover. The bookstand lure. If I wasn’t supposed to judge a book by its cover it wouldn’t be a saying. That’s why I firmly believe that a penny saved is a penny earned. Given that this is another cover with the author running there is little to say that I haven’t already said except ho-hum. With his reputation I’m surprised he isn’t shirtless. Ahh, he saved that for the back cover. If I had those abs I’d never wear a shirt. I’d also be jobless. Or I’d have a very different sort of job. The photo is a little more intense than some of the other lone wolf cover photos and up close it looks like the sun may be in his eyes. I am worried about sun furrow lines, but Dean is not. The author photo is a family photo which is a sweet choice. I won’t critique his family. See, I do have a line.
If you recall, I quite liked his more recent book 50/50 and many avid running readers told me that this one was the better of the two, so I was anxious to get reading. I borrowed this book from a friend and didn’t want to dog-ear my favourite sections (friend: those dog-eared pages are not mine, I promise … also, facebook says I’ve been ignoring you even though we see each other 3 times a week) so I can’t refer back to my favourite parts because I can’t remember where they are located.
I absolutely adored the chapter titles and quotes, a nice selection of old standbys with enough excellent new (to me) quotes among them to pull out during a tough run and remind myself how awesome I am. Dean has been blasted quite a bit for having an ultra-ego, but I didn’t really get that vibe from the book. Confident yes, but not annoyingly cocky. He does like to emphasize how hard he trains and spends a lot of time linking his success to his ability work hard. I’m not disputing the hard work (of which he does an obsessive amount), however I don’t think he’s giving his ancestral gene pool enough credit when he says that he’s an ultramarathon man based on hard work alone, and that he has no natural talents. Given his competitive success at other sports and his ability to recovery from ridiculous physical efforts his should pat himself on the back for hard work and dedication and give some thanks for the superhuman athletic body he inherited. I suspect he’s annoying great at all sports. Not that I’m jealous. When physiology meets psychology, in other words, you get an ultramarathon man.
This book describes the early running life of Dean. Before the bigtime sponsorships and stunt runs in Times Square. Before he was the most controversial man in distance running. When he had a full-time job and ran all night to get in his miles so he didn’t neglected his wife and two kids. Before all the fame he ran a bit in high school and then stopped for a long time. And then he turned 30, flirted with a woman who was not his wife, and ran from the guilt all night. He covered 30 miles (48 km) after 15 years of non-running (but doing lots and lots of other stuff). He can’t credit that feat with good training. Insanity maybe. Then he started running more regularly, ordered a pizza on the run and had it delivered to a street corner, and now he’s famous, as famous as a runner can be in a nation ruled by non-running sports.
So started his adult running career and the stories from his early training runs and races form the basis of the book. He covers a few seminal races in-depth and you might think it would be boring to read multiple chapters on the same race, but you would be wrong. I was riveted as I read about his first Western States 100 Miler, which as far as can tell involves running up and down a series of mountains in oppressive heat, and he went blind at the moment my subway ride ended and I had to wait 8.5 hours to find out what happened. Oh yes, if you run 100 miles you might go blind. You might quit running when you realize you went blind. If so, you might not be Dean. At some point, I can’t remember during which race, the man crawled on his hands and knees because he couldn’t walk. At that point? I call it a day. I might not be Dean. He also writes about Badwater (a race he eventually wins), a crazy once in a lifetime race to the South Pole (literally, it ended at that iconic barbershop pole), a 200 mile relay race solo, and other equally inspiring and increasingly difficult races. The size of his legs after that 200 mile expedition actually made me grimace. He said it took him months to fully recover. And so it goes, one crazy run after another. Some races ended in success, some did not, and I’m not about to tell.
Runshort’s Rating: 4.25/5 shoes. My conclusion – it is better than 50/50. Approximately .25 shoes better.
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Tagged books, celebrity, marathon, running, ultramarathon
I briefly met Dane at one of those race expo author signings (Marine Corps, I think). And by met I mean I bought his book (See Dane Run by Dane Rauschenberg: check out his blog) and he signed it for me. He wrote: Chase your dreams. You will catch them. Even though he wrote that to everyone, I thought it was sweet. I’m very susceptible to sweet during race weekend. And he was very kind, posing for an author photo with me for my stalker collection. I think he even asked me to send him a copy, but I forgot until just now. I’m sure he’s still forgotten. Prior to stumbling across his kiosk at the expo I had never heard of Dane, his challenge, or his book. But I was intrigued. I had recently read Dean’s book, 50/50 (read my review), which was 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days. However, only a handful of those were real-time marathons, i.e. held during an official marathon event. The rest were re-enactments. Dane ran 52 certified marathons, one every weekend for a year. The travel alone would kill me.
I’ll begin where I always begin, by judging a book by its cover. As always, we see the author, alone, mid-run. This time atop a globe – which is a little misleading given that only three of his races were outside the US, two and a half (yes, just half) of those were in neighbouring Canada, and the third in the Cayman Islands. Hardly the worldly runner the cover presents. But it is a small twist on the lone runner on a road motif that seems to dominate running autobiography covers. My softcover has no separate author photo, but the back cover shows a finish line Dane pointing at the heavens and the book is filled with those look-at-my-bicep finish line poses that some runners seem to enjoy. I would look ridiculous if I tried. Instead I opt for a not-so-horrifying-I-run-to-the-nearest-plastic-surgeon pose. It seldom works.
Dane is a guy’s guy. This may be a book for a guy’s guy. He runs in a singlet emblazoned with his college name and teases other runner’s about the athletic prowess of his school’s football team. He wanted to be a college football player. He likes to playfully smack talk other runners (although, I think it is playful but serious). This guy is definitely a competitor. Every race recap recounted the number of people he passed in the last few kilometres, his final placing, his time and the excuses for his time (I needed to save myself for more being the most common one. It’s a good one). This is a guy who keep score. Not someone, in other words, to whom I can easily relate. Although I do make an effort to pass all costumed runners and shirtless men. And my birthday wish was for a more competitive edge. Which I just ruined by sharing. DAMN those complicated wish rules.
As for the book, I loved the challenge. I didn’t love that he called it “Fiddy2″. Like the finish line arm guns, I just can’t get away with the “Fiddy2″ slang. I sound weird when I say it. Maybe it was catchy marketing ploy, but my inner school teacher cringed every time I read it. Which was about a million times.
The very first paragraph of the book mentioned The Clock. Time is theme throughout, as the weeks pile on and Dane’s time goals shift. In an unexpected direction. In sentence two he reminds us that other sports have a clock that shows you that time escaping, running has one that counts up, piling onto a total that starts at zero. You do not lose time in a race; rather, you gain it. And you hope, when all is said and done, that you have gained as little as possible. Thank you for the reminder. As if that taunting little man on my GPS isn’t reminder enough.
Before Dane started this 52 Marathon quest he had run only six marathons. Six! His first in 4.15 and his fastest in 3.09. People thought he was crazy. Sure he could run, but six is a long way from fifty-two. I mean Fiddy2. A long, long way. Never underestimate the potential of a stubborn determined athlete with good recovery genetics. I like that he provided a race recap for every race he ran. That said, the recaps did get rather repetitive after a while. Travel snafus, weather, shower taps, jockeying for position with other runners. His highs and lows are relatable. He is honest about happy but disappointing finishes even the time is decent. He grumbles about race etiquette (read: four abreast runners blocking the path for faster racers). He laments moving into a more competitive age category (from under 30 to the winning 30-35 group). He appreciates a course with consistent water tables and an elevation map that is a reasonable approximation of the route. Like the rest of us, he lies about going slow in a race. We don’t mean to lie, but we do. Totally relatable.
He gets faster as the year goes on. That right, faster. Defying all logic he gets stronger, running three of his four fastest at the end of the year. One of the most interesting parts of the book was reading to see just how fast he would get. I won’t ruin it for you. Watch for 52 Marathons to Boston, coming soon to a bookstore near you.
I loved that the book contained detailed, albeit somewhat repetitive, race reports; but what the book missed was the personal story. Often I find running books too heavily tipped towards the non-running details, but this book is a rare reversal. How did this challenge impact his job, his bank account, his love life? He seemed to flirt a lot on course, but did he have a girlfriend during this year-long challenge? Did he have a girlfriend by the end of it? What does he do to make money? How many vacation days did he use? What type of training did he do between races? Did he do anything other than run? What did his coworkers think of his quest? His family? Did he ever what to quit? How much money did he raise for the charity he mentioned on every page? How much money did this challenge cost (he wasn’t a sponsored runner)? I’m left with so many questions. Sure I know the Leadville elevation and that he ran two Leadville’s that day (his first and his last, ha), but I’m left wanting more. I just read an autobiographical book and I know very little about the biographer. Maybe the facts would be enough for the guy’s guy. The facts are not enough for this running reader.
Sidebar: I would be remiss to ignore his Canadian side-trips. Northern hospitality met his expectations and the race reviews were very positive. At one point he boldly claimed “Canada Loves Dane”. Given our limited interaction I can not verify that statement. Marathon #19 was in Mississauga and his experience with the fierce Lake Ontario wind mirrored by own, even though we were separated by one year. Weirdly, in response to his own confusion over the lack of mile markers (which, really, this is a surprise?), he decides that mid race is an appropriate place to make stale language jokes and seems confused when no one gets his “humour”. Erm, that’s a pet peeve slipping through. In the fall he travelled north to run #29, the Nova Scotia Marathon, amid a tropical storm (don’t Blame Canada) and placed third overall. There were only three runners. Just kidding. His third trip north of the border for #42 was during the marathon. Actually during the marathon. That’s why it only counts as a half. This one is on my to-do-list: The Niagara Falls Marathon, a two country border-crossing race. It is also a notable race in Fiddy2 for reasons that require a spoiler alert. So I’ll keep quiet.
Runshort’s Rating: 3/5 shoes.
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Tagged books, celebrity, exercise, fitness, health, marathon, Marine Corps Marathon, New York City Marathon
Photo Credit: Guelph Mercury
Benedict Mulroney, son of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (for my non-Canadian readers, of which there is at least one, BM led the country from 1984 through 1993) is running. No, not for office.
Ben, for the unfamiliar, is an entertainment host on etalk, Canadian Idol, and other programs I have no interest in watching. I should disclaim that I am not a big fan of Ben Mulroney. His indestructible hair and spray on tan are off-putting. But mostly because I once watched an interview in which he denied that his family connections played any role in his rise to success and I wanted to send him Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, but then I decided he can buy his own darn copy.
The news worthy of a post is that he ran a marathon Sunday. He’s been training for the Mississauga Marathon since February, running 5-6 times per week. I wonder why he decided to run the Mississauga Marathon and not the Ottawa Marathon, which is a much bigger stage and the route would take him past his former stomping grounds? I bet the Mississauga Marathon Director doesn’t care why. Already planning to run the race, Ben decided to use the opportunity to raise money for Big Mike, a friend who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a crash. I really like the idea of raising money for an individual verus an organization. According to the website donation thermometer the team of ten has raised $20,000. That seems rather low, given some of the fundraisers. Ben must have some friends with deep pockets. So must his sister Caroline, who reportedly also ran the marathon with the team, although my cyber-staking produces no finish time results for sister Mulroney. Husband failed at real life stalking and saw no evidence of Ben or the telltale entourage on the race course. Despite Husband’s failure as a PI, SportStats never lies and Ben ran this race in 3.47.03 chip (3.50.16 gun). The talk show host certanly isn’t all talk (oh yeah, you saw it coming).
Title Reference: Bonnie Rait – Something to Talk About. 1991.
Daris runs 5K in 21.04
I watch The Biggest Loser. The show tempts me into binge eating while watching, even though most of the contestants have lost more than I weigh. Or used to weigh, before I started my weekly two-hour Biggest Loser binges.
Contestant Daris George (pictured left) recently ran The Biggest Loser 5K race in 21.04. Then he ran back to collect his get-Dallas-fit-team, so the race wasn’t an all out effort for him. He’s young, so he has that annoying speed advantage. And he works out all day long. So he has that annoying fitness advantage. But he still weights 214 pounds and 4 months ago he weighed almost 350.
21.04. I don’t want to be a skeptic, but it comes naturally to me. I’m not convinced that his finish time is legit. Or more plausibly, the time is legit but the course wasn’t a full 5K. Were the interns out there with a measuring wheel or a counter? I think a car odometer is a bit more likely. In other words, not certified. A 21.04K is a 4.12/km (6.46/mile) pace. Again, I don’t want to be the skeptic, but that just seems …. unlikely without some mighty fine genetics. Where can I get some mighty fine genetics?
But perhaps he has a lot of natural speed and Jillian yelled him to the finish. I’d certainly run faster than usual if she was screaming at me. Plus, would the show risk another running scandal? He did reportedly run a real road race a month later in 21.16. A minute and a bit slower, despite another month of training, but still a great time.
What do you think, is his Biggest Loser 5K time legit?
Title Reference: C+C Music Factory – Things That Make You Go Hmmm. 1990.
Posted in Celebrity Sneakers, Running Tids & Bits
Tagged celebrity, exercise, fitness, health, running, TV, TV show review
Because I procrastinate I did not register in time to run the Boston Marathon this year, despite running three qualifying marathons (including Boston) in 2009. On Monday 25,000 runners will line up in Hopkinton. I will hop the subway to work. Secretly I’m relieved – Boston is expensive, and there’s a little bit of pressure, and I hate a long cold pre-race wait. Although I’m not running Boston this year I will busy myself thinking about the celebrity runners who have crossed and will cross that famous finish line.
In a few daysValerie Bertinelli will attempt to join the surprisingly short list of Boston Bound celebs (the stars seem to prefer New York City for marathon running). Only one celeb qualified to run and that same runner requalified at Boston. But he’s a pro athlete celeb and so I don’t think he counts. The rest of the runners in this star-studded field would not qualify based on their Boston finish time. But they are in good company. Less than 40% of Boston runners requalify while running the Boston Marathon, even though approximately 80% earned their spot with a qualifying race.
The List:
Lance Armstrong. SuperLance ran the Boston Marathon in 2008 at the age of 36. Finish time = 2.50.58. BQ time = 3.15. Difference = 25 minutes to spare. But I already said he doesn’t count.
Michael Dukakis. In 1951 this highschooler and future politician ran the Boston Marathon at the young age of 17. Finish time = 3.31.00. BQ time = 3.10. Difference = 21 minutes.
Will Ferrell. This funnyman isn’t joking around. He ran the Boston Marathon in 2003 at the age of 35. Finish time = 3.56.12. BQ time = 3.15. Difference = 41 minutes.
Lisa Ling. This talk show host turned reporter ran the Boston Marathon in 2002 at the age of 28. Finish time = 4.34.18. BQ time = 3.40. Difference = 54 minutes.
David James Elliott. JAG’s Harmon ran the Boston Marathon in 2000 at the age of 39. Finish time = 4:57:23. Tip = fewer crunches more running. BQ time = 3.20 (I gave him the 40 year old rate). Difference = 1 hour and 37 minutes.
Ali Landry. Ran the Boston Marathon in 2002 at the age of 28. Finish time = 5.41.41. BQ time = 3.40. Difference = 2 hours and 1 minute.
Mario Lopez. Ran the Boston Marathon (with his now ex-girlfriend Ali) in 2002 at the age of 29. Finish time = 5.41.41. BQ time = 3.10. Difference = 2 hours and 31 minutes. And he blamed his girlfriend for his time. Boo.
Tell me, who did I miss??
Title Reference: Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – Roadrunner. 1972.
Posted in Celebrity Sneakers
Tagged Boston Marathon, celebrity, exercise, fitness, health, marathon, running
Dr. Seuss’ The Foot Book. Because it’s Friday.
Title Reference: Dean Martin – Happy Feet.
Posted in Celebrity Sneakers, Running Tids & Bits
I have a liberal definition of exercise. For example, if I watch a TV show and people talk about running that counts as running. I get in a great workout watching The Biggest Loser. It’s part of my mental training, which, if the experts are to be believed, is 90% of the marathon.
Last night I was watching Dead Like Me reruns and Daisy Adair says:
I never rush.
If I see someone running, I just assume they’re a loser.
Mason interjects,
Unless they’re a runner.
Daisy retorts -
Yeah, even then.
Especially then.
Workout complete.
Title Reference: Beck – Loser. From the album Mellow Gold. 1993.
Dear fellow bloggers,
Too busy to blog? Find running related videos on YouTube and try to pass them off as a post.
You’re welcome.
Chariots of Fur. What am I going to get now that I made it to the end of the beach? You get to run the other way. Old bean.
Taming of the Shoe. What to do with an unruly shoe? Tameth.
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Tagged celebrity, exercise, fitness, health, running, TV, TV show review
A mini marathon. 26.2 feet. 42.2 metres. I’m not sure my math is right. But at my current level of (un)fitness, a turtle distance marathon would push me beyond my physical limit. I get winded just saying marathon. Shelly and her sweatband would leave me behind like that infamous Hare. My legs have forgotten how to run. Silently willing them to move faster has proven ineffective. Not so silently commanding them to go faster has similarly failed to work. My once light step has transformed into a painful clomp. My long run pace has become my tempo run pace. Half the distance seems twice as far. The glare from the untouched white pages of my logbook blinds me. My already paid for race entries mock me. It’s official, my new training cycle has begun. I survived week one. Barely. In the words of Shelly the Turtle, how did I get into this?
Title Reference: Cat Stevens – The First Cut is the Deepest. From the album New Masters. 1967.
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Tagged celebrity, exercise, fitness, health, marathon, running, TV, TV show review
Valerie Bertinelli is running the Boston Marathon. One kilometre for every pound she lost eating prepackaged food. Okay, I made that last part up because I liked it when numbers intersect in random but seemingly meaningful ways. She didn’t qualify her way in, but is raising money to support cancer research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The team of 500 runners wish to add another $4.4 million to the $43 million raised since the marathon challenge began in 1990. If my mental math is correct, that’s an average of $8,880 per person. That’s a tough goal for the average runner. I hope Jenny Craig is feeling generous.
Jenny Craig sure lucked out with this spokesperson. Excuse me Wikipedia, I mean activist: “she considers herself a health and weight-loss activist rather than a hired weight-loss spokesperson“. They say no publicity is bad publicity, but I’m not sure that holds in the weight loss industry. No offense Kirstie Alley and your near fatal fall off the boxed food wagon. I wonder if the newest addition to the Jenny Craig family, Jason Alexander, will lace up for New York 2010? Imagine the Seinfeld inspired alarm clock jokes. I give the Jenny Craig food producers a year before we see some sort of marathon power bar in their line of products. p.s. That last sentence entitles me to a cut of the profits.
To my celebrity-obsessed readers, what do you predict for her finish time? Will she beat Oprah?
Title Reference: Polly Cutter – This Is It. Theme Song from One Day at a Time .
Posted in Celebrity Sneakers
Tagged Boston Marathon, celebrity, exercise, fitness, health, marathon, running
John Stanton in the first Running Room store
Governor General Michaëlle Jean recently announced the names of 57 new appointments to the Order of Canada. Among them is John Stanton, founder of the Running Room. Once an overweight couch potato with a nicotine addiction this honour recognizes his role in promoting physical fitness and active lifestyles. The 100+ chain of running stores all started in 1984 with a single room (the running room, get it?) in Edmonton. His running spark ignited after 1981 3K race with his kids felt more like a marathon than a kiddie fun run. With 300 days a year on the road running races, fun runs, and giving motivation talks John is the face of his company and a tireless motivational speaker. No matter how many people he meets he seems to remember every one. Hell, two years later he even remembered the weather during our first run together. I can’t even remember what I ate for lunch Sunday. Oh right. Cake.
In his words (as told to The Edmonton Journal, not me), “I’m certainly honoured, but at the same time humbled. It’s an honour to be recognized. I’m a proud Canadian, and this is one of the higher awards you can get as a Canadian. But at the same time, I’m very proud we’ve been able to motivate a lot of people into becoming athletic.” Although his methods are not without dissenters (to walk or not to walk, that is the controversy), I’m pleased to see his role as a running advocate and supporter recognized. And not just because he sends me a paycheck a couple of times a year.
Title Reference: Queen – We are the champions. From the album News of the World. 1977.
Posted in Celebrity Sneakers, Running Tids & Bits
Tagged celebrity, exercise, fitness, health, marathon, running
Today is the first day of winter. The darkest day of the year.
I embrace the cold weather runs. This will not surprise my loyal readers, but I tend to fret about race day weather. Well-known fact #1: I self-destruct at high temperatures. Well known fact #2: By high I mean anything over 10C. Although DNA testing is inconclusive, I am most certainly a direct relation of the famous Snow Miser. The family resemblance is uncanny. I certainly won’t be inviting my extended family, Heat Miser and his sun-loving descendents, to Christmas dinner. You may recall the legendary family showdown captured in the compelling documentary A Year Without a Santa Claus:
Title Reference: The Snow Miser Song. From the movie the Year Without a Santa Claus. 1974.
Posted in Celebrity Sneakers, Running Tids & Bits
Tagged celebrity, exercise, fitness, health, marathon, running, weather, winter
Dowey at SickKids. Source/Photo Credit: CP24 news (Canadian Press/Nathan Denette)
The giant joint, erm Olympic Torch, recently passed through my ‘hood. This was but one stop on the 106 day 45,000 National Relay to the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. Around 260 people will run 48K (300 metres at a time, which seems an odd distance) with the torch through the streets of the GTA. Among the runners is Murray Dowey, 1948 Olympic Gold Medalist in hockey and retired TTC employee. His torchbearing segment was to include a ride on the iconic TTC streetcar (holding the flame out the window, lest the iconic streetcar go up in smoke) but a detour to avoid the protesters reportedly foiled this plan (I can’t confirm the reports; I wasn’t there). The story of his eleventh-hour call to an already last-minute ragtag team of underdogs (The Royal Canadian Airforce Flyers) that won Olympic gold makes me nostalgic for an Olympic games of big hopes without the big sponsorships.
Dowey is not the only celebrity who took a hit from the flame. Not to worry, they didn’t inhale. Former Olympians (should I say former? Once an Olympian always an Olympian?) Marnie McBean, Brian Orser, and Vicky Sunohara, ballerina Karen Kain, astronaut Roberta Bondar, filmmakers Ivan and Jason Reitman, director Deepa Mehta, and Bollywood star Akshay Kumarall all joined the red carpet relay around town. I wonder if they needed to submit an application to coca-cola?
My running group planned a run that, if the timing worked out, would have us crossing paths with the famous flame. As we ran along the torch route in our matching run club outfits tens of people went mad with excitement thinking we were the torch-relayers. Low-key torch runners without the patriotic red and white uniforms, police escort, or live-action commercial disguised as a parade. Cries of “where’s the torch”, “WHERE’S THE TORCH” echoed as we dashed by on the sidewalk. The torch, as it turns out, was delayed by an hour due to protesting and, I suspect, a stop to satisfy those munchies.
Title Reference: Whitney Houston – One Moment in Time. From the album One Moment in Time: 1988 Summer Olympics Album. 1988.
Posted in Celebrity Sneakers, Running Tids & Bits
Tagged celebrity, exercise, fitness, fun run, health, Olympics, running
Oh Archie. Won’t your crazy antics ever end? In today’s episode philanthroptic teens Archie and Better are volunteering at a water table for the Riverdale Run Marathon. Not unexpectedly, Veronica is nowhere to be found. Marathons are contagious and Betty convinces Archie to join her in running the upcoming Riverdale High Marathon. Seriously, is Riverdale big enough to support two marathons? I’m assuming the Riverdale High Marathon is open to everyone because even in cartoon Archie looks like he’s knock knock knocking on 40′s door.
Never having run even one marathon Archie boldly proclaims ”one day I’m going to win a marathon”. Levelheaded Betty reminds Archie that “everyone who finishes a marathon is a winner”. Tell that to anti-plodder Juliet Macur from the New York Times. Archie learns he can’t run a marathon in his flipflops so Betty takes him to Fleet Feet to buy shoes so cushiony it feels like running on marshmallows. I would’ve pegged him as an overpronator.
Ever the optimist our girl next door cozies up to Archie calling him her ”marathon man”. Six comic editions later in a weird flashforward Marathon Man proposes to Veronica, leaving Betty alone at the metaphorical finish line. Three editions later he proposes to Betty. Marathon training can be tough on relationships.
I haven’t read the comic and I can’t find a spoiler on line, so sleuthy readers … please tell me, is Archie faster than Oprah?
Title Reference: The Archies - Sugar Sugar. 1969.
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Tagged celebrity, exercise, fitness, health, marathon, running
My Running Shorts: short stories about my life on the run.
