Occasionally I have seen references to something on Facebook and I think about looking some of you up there.  But asking someone to be a friend brings flashbacks of a girl named Lynne who nearly died laughing when I asked her that back in high school.  I finally did decide to send requests to the people I could find.

I just wanted to make sure you knew I have no problem if you want to ignore the requests.  Some people use Facebook for specific things and don't want it clogged up with ancillary stuff.  I use it mostly to see what Annabelle is up to down in Tallahassee.  (And now my daughter down in St. Charles, IL.)

Just don't laugh real hard when you ignore the request and I will be fine.

If anyone needs a friend and didn't hear from me, look me up (Dave Begley).

...DAVE//..........if you just opened your FaceBook account,

goto your Privacy Options, my email got hacked the same month I went on FB,

which

is why I'm OFF FB

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for no apparent reason

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQpp5LEEaj0

For no particular reason, has anyone ever run the Maine coast Marathon?

I was glad you found me on FB, Dave. I use FB as a way to keep in touch with my family back home and my kids. I also enjoy the capability to share pictures on FB.

5 zombileks miles tonight. I neglected to take my headlamp with me, so the return home was slow.

Look at stumpy, plotting another marathon!!!!

Off to a concert now. It should be fun.

good job ziggy on starting the daily, and making it to Safeway.
I would not have bet you would have made it.

nice caption too, especially for 3:30am
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The day I sign up for facebook’ll be the day they make me run in running shoes, wear tights, get a gremlin, run when it’s snowing and I could be skiing instead, give up my dial-up or my flip-flop cell phone that work just fine, throw away my trail thongs, wear a wet-suit, get a tattoo or earrings, don’t train for marathons, swim triathlons cold turkey from the previous year’s swim, enter a 100-mile race on 58 miles of training in the previous four months, try to run a marathon in hard, inflexible Japanese wooden geta sandals or in flimsy straw waraji sandals, cloth jikatabi construction worker shoes with thin rubber soles, a jinbei happy coat and stupid-looking sugegasa straw farmers hat,  . . . oh, I already do that.   I”m not worthy but I’d like to be dave59's secret friend anyway so he doesn’t have to tell anyone.
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Henry - there’s nothing wrong with regular walking.
Maybe try trekking poles.  As a lifelong skier, I thought they were totally stupid for hiking and walking but it turns out that trekking poles not only take pressure off hips and tender knees but somehow seem to make just walking a more legitimate endeavor, even walking a marathon in seven or eight hours becomes more highly regarded if you don’t try to look like a runner. When I see a regular trekking group marching around the Imperial Palace 5K perimeter at a slightly slower pace than the six hour-plus marathons I get to do over in Japan every once-in-a-while, I sometimes wonder who’s getting the most, or best, exercise. 
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Prediction: ribs, and two-cat, and tramps’ll be as successful, if not even way more wildly successful, in their internet classes as they are posting herein. Incidentally, congratulations tramps. They are the lucky ones.

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I know what selbs means about grandsons as I think I got more exercise running around the zoo when he was two-and-a-half instead of running that year's seattle marathon.  I don't want to jinx myself but there's a good chance that it might work out this year too, . . . but with a four-and-a-half year old bundle of energy this time. <<<(please/please)>>>  if so, i'll take a pedometer and compare.