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Bad Blogger. Bad! Bad! (toenail count: 4.5)

What a crap blogger I am. I suppose since I haven’t moved my lard-ass since I’ve been back, I haven’t had much to say other than “pass the donuts.”
I promise I’ll do a race report for MdS soon chock full o’ pithy remarks and strategic tips. In the [...]

Blister-free & on Tee-Vee (toenail count: 5)

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TUNE IN TO ABC TOMORROW (THURS) AS I’M HUMILIATED ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA, NIGHTLINE & WORLD NEWS
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First of all, thank you to everyone who emailed me during the race. It’s ridiculous how much everyone looked forward to getting their emails at the end of the day. And special thank you’s to [...]

Petition WWDTM! (toenail count: 7.5)

There is a show on NPR called “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.” It is a news quiz filled with weird stories, comedians and a lot of snark. But that is not what I’m here to write about. I’m here (so to speak) to ask you to DEMAND that they allow me to [...]

ounce obsessed (toenail count: 8)

This is how I now shop. Go into Duane Reade to get one Odwalla Bar or something and wind up cruising the snack isle, cel phone in hand for quick and easy calculating, checking out the labels of only the most unhealthy of snacks.
Then, having determined the most Jenny Craig-resistant of snacks, I proceed [...]

Have you seen me? (toenail count: 7)

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Where’d Bill go? The most prolific poster on our forum has fallen silent. After getting sick at Rocky Raccoon and finishing in a “disappointing” 8 hour something finish, (including a ten mile walk) he got dreadfully ill.
SIDE TANGENT: Don’t you hate it when people say they’re so disappointed in [...]

The way home from Rocky Raccoon (toenail count: 5.5)

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I was taking my flight home from Rocky Raccoon and wanted to sleep. Badly. Very badly. But the inevitable happened: chatty neighbor.
So just tell him you’re tired. Or just make it obvious by not engaging in the conversation until he gets the hint. Except…
He was an incredibly sweet [...]

Rocky Raccoon- I dunnit. (toenail count: 5.5)

I finished (the 50, not the 100). Yes, the Rocky Raccoon Endurance Trail Run was a sonofabitch. But what put it all in perspective was watching, as I was chauffeured back to the hotel, the headlamps of the 100 mile runners bobbing up and down as it became increasingly dark. [...]

tree-huggin’ (toenail count: 6)

I was in Whole Foods (looking for Agave nectar so I could make Ultralight Joe’s Moose Goo, (I wound up using honey) and fell prey to marketing forces by picking up the Utne Reader as I was in the unending check-out line.
In it there’s an article by Amy Roe, from the Bear Deluxe Magazine about [...]

total sucker. (toenail count: 6)

After talking to Grant, who I think is the owner of Gossamer Gear, I wound up buying the Mariposa Plus with the understanding that I may wind up returning it. With a hip belt.
details to follow.
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a possible advantage. (toenail count: 6)

Perhaps it’s the temperature dip, or perhaps it’s that I’m still a little sick. But during my long run on Saturday during which I had no Kleenex or the like, I just couldn’t help wondering…
If snot runs down your nose and into your mouth, will that count towards your daily calorie total?