Marathon runners amaze me. I'm going to run 2 miles today, and I'm whining already.
I think PG was not at all a distance runner, but trained really hard to do this.
"amaze me" s/b "are completely insane".
Unfogged fun running fact of the day: my mom autopsied Jim Fixx.
(Pedantry pre-emption: 'to autopsy' is standard usage in the forensic pathology biz.)
Distance running is for masochists. Running is fine and all while doing a sport like soccer, but running for the sake of running? No thanks.
At least the scenery changes along the way.
Pg wasn't running for the sake of running; she was running for the sake of raising funding for leukemia and lymphoma research.
At least the scenery changes along the way.
The inspirational stretches of your hometown, as seen from the sidewalk.
Jim Fixx, Adele Davis, Jerome Rodale. Coincidence? I think not. Maybe McDonalds, Maybe Cargill.
I never knew that Rodale died on Dick Cavett's show minutes after swearing that he never felt better in his life. Tragic, but wow.
That's really the perfect time to die. Good for Rodale.
Aw, that's awesome of PG. She's so cool.
In Fixx's case, incidentally, the cause of death was heart attack related to atherosclerosis and hereditary heart disease. Moral: you can get fit on your own, but see your doctor anyway.
Moral: you can get fit on your own, but see your doctor anyway.
A friend of the family has a very similar genetic history to Fixx, and even with a pretty religious exercise and diet routine, and staying very slim, still had to have quadruple bypass or some such in his 50's. He had already outlived a number of his male relatives, but sometimes a shitty genetic hand can't be escaped.
Is this insider knowledge? Or is Jesus......part of the coverup?
is Jesus......part of the coverup?
you want the Kirk Cameron thread for these concerns.
18: Remember that part of the Fixx story is that he was an overweight, two-pack-a-day smoker before he became the running guru, so you can still maybe blame R.J. Reynolds and McDonald's. Blame them anyway, on principle.
I clearly remember answering the phone the day after he died, and the first words out of my mother's mouth were, "You'll never guess who I autopsied yesterday."
On the Fixx thing, I like the rejoinder I heard once from a marathon runner: sure, get fit and you may not live a day linger -- but you'll live a longer day.
I've been on a running kick this year. It is a fundamentally stupid activity, but I've stuck with it because a) I'm trying to become more hott by losing weight b) My nifty GPS collects copious data about each run, which means that I can look back and feel good about making progress on something, and c) When I finish a hard run, I get a fabulous feeling of relaxation that generally lasts a couple hours.
21: It would probably have been sporting of me to venture a guess, but on the spur of the moment I was unable to choose from among the vast set of people who might have died in the state of Vermont the previous day. Plus, it was a weekend summer morning during my college years, and I may have been hung over.
While watching The (meh) American President, I'm in an argument with a friend about what the effects would be if, in a major speech, a prominent Democratic politician said they're "a card-carrying member of the ACLU." Is there any polling on public impressions of the ACLU?
I hope you're the one saying it would sink him. But I don't know of any polling to back that up.
The only reason ever to run is to run away from the cops.
Is there any polling on public impressions of the ACLU?
This surely can't help.
26: Isn't that one of the lines that sunk Dukakis back in '88?
26: Yes, I was suggesting that things had changed, but had no data.
33: I'd like to hope you are right.
Congrats to Profgirl!
She is the new Unfogged Studdette.
She's the original Unfogged Pinup Girl, actually.
No, will, you newbie, she is the old Unfogged Studette. I take it you weren't around in the days of PG's pantyblogging (sadly taken down since).
Rodale died on Dick Cavett's show minutes after swearing that he never felt better in his life.
"Do I look strange?"
Hurrah for Profgrrrl!
Heebie is an elitist separatist. It has to be said.
an elitist separatist
Heebie and I plan to establish a remote homeland for our elitist brethren, that we need have no intercourse with the egalitarian.
You don't want to go to HELL do you you? -- That's a long way!
It means she left a "log" in her pantybs.
Give the computer back to your father, 45.
Clownae: No you won't. She's "that" kind of separatist, IYKWIM.