Articles Archive for April 2009
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I’ve been looking for some inspiration, and came across this video:
How crazy would it be to do an Iron Man? Can you imagine, me going from my current lack of active state to doing an Iron Man event is almost as crazy as me running an ultra marathon by the time I turn 40 next year in 2010.
I wouldn’t do an Iron Man in 2010, but maybe in 2011
I guess I should first try to finish a 5k again, before I start talking crazy.
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I tested out a new application that I found out about online. The application is called Run Keeper, and it’s an iPhone app that uses the GPS functionality of the iPhone to keep track of your distance, pace, etc.
I was a bit skeptical, but let me tellya, I love this thing. There’s a free, ad supported version of the application and a paid ad free version of the app. The app tracks all of the information that you may want to know about your run and stores it on the …
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Today, they ran the marathon in Boston, and I wasn’t there. I don’t know why I even bother keeping up with things like that. Well, I seriously need to get my butt in gear if I plan on meeting my goal of running an ultra marathon before my 40th birthday.
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That’s the headline that I’d love to see. Of course, “newspapers” and other organizations won’t quite put it like that out of fear of offending someone, but really we’re all thinking that.
See this article about United Airlines charging fat people more for a plane ticket as prima fascia evidence of what I’m talking about.
I’m not entirely opposed to United charging more, based on the volume of space that you occupy on the plane. I’m fat, and I probably use up more than my fair share of the volume of the …

