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Suffering Benefiting from mature onset exercise addiction and low aerobic endorphin release threshold. Hoping there is no cure.
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ThomasRuns Blog Twitter "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - [Walter Bagehot]
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Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go f*** himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.
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Well going back to another recent thread.. if you had your ipod then you wouldn't have to listen to any of that.. just sayin
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
This might sound strange, but I'd like to get other opinions. It really irritates me when I am in a race and people around me are having extensive conversations with their running partners. Come on people! It's a race! Not a Sunday morning fun run. Shut up and run hard! Don't you care? Sheesh! Is it just me? Am I being over-sensitive here?
Champions are made when no one is watching
Am I being over-sensitive here?
Runners run
One day at a time
The only time talking during races annoys me is when I am struggling.
E.J.Greater Lowell Road RunnersCry havoc and let slip the dawgs of war!May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your SPF30, may the rains fall soft upon your sweat-wicking hat, and until you hit the finish line may The Flying Spaghetti Monster hold you in the hollow of His Noodly Appendage.
Yeah, "steam engine locomotive"... see, many of us are doing that in a 5k or a 10k.
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Acceptable at a dance, invaluable in a shipwreck.
A Saucy Wench
That's me, except I've always described my breathing as that of a mortally wounded water buffalo. Has a certain ring to it, no? I actually had someone complain about it while I was running the Applefest HM hard. I was pretty surprised, but I guess I shouldn't have been.
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7