The Onion: I'm Truly Sorry For This, But You're About To Hear All About The Last Marathon I Ran. Yeah, runners mistake polite conversation for a request for in-depth self-analysis. Oops.
Sarah Finding Fit: Day 211. Blogger Sarah shares a random fact about herself (and a fuzzy photo) — her knees sweat a lot. And here I was afraid it was just me!
Other Voices: Running With — And Chasing Down — HIV. OK, so this mostly caught my interest because it was published the day after I saw a local production of "Rent." Still, David Ernesto Munar's essay about coping with his diagnosis, treating his disease and his resurgence in running is a surprisingly uplifting post about AIDS.
BBC News: Your Olympic athlete body match. Enter your height and weight and find out which Olympic athlete you're most built like — how could this not be fun? I got Savannah Vinsant, a 19-year-old trampolinist on the U.S. gymnastics team.
Side note, the people who have been pointing out that the athletes' official photos look like mug shots are 100 percent correct. Savannah looks downright depressed in her picture.
Run and Eat Simply: Annoying things that runners say and what they mean. To come full-circle with my post, here's more mockery of running culture (from someone I believe is a runner).
I'm totally guilty of Nos. 2, 3 and 4. Sorry, friends and family. I'd like to counter that by pointing out that I refrain from saying "speed work," "tempo run" and "PR" (Nos. 8, 9 and 1, respectively) to nonrunners.
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Showing posts with label Other Voices. Show all posts
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Gems from the Google Reader account this past week — some fluffy, some serious.
Other Voices: Being Chased Down By A Car. Mom Dorothy Beal thought her biggest obstacle was her mindset going into a run pushing three kids in a stroller and sweating under the hot sun. Instead, it turned out to be a psychopath driver who pulled up beside her, screamed obscenities at her and followed her as she tried to run away.
Beal's post isn't just about adding to the unfortunately large pile of stories in which "running while female" proves to be a huge liability — she wanted to share what she did right and wrong in handling the situation, and several commenters joined in the discussion. (I always bring my cellphone now that I'm in a new city; this is a good habit, according to the post and the law enforcement official who commented.)
Still, it's incredibly frustrating that on every blog I read (no matter the topic) there has to be a story on how to protect yourself simply because people are bat-shit crazy and because you are female.
Running Is Funny: Women Marathoners Rank 978th on This List. On a somewhat lighter note, Mike at Running Is Funny shared a Deadspin post whose topic I will delicately summarize as "what women's sport has the most attractive participants?" After the top 10, the author jumps to 978th and ranks both women's basketball and women's marathon:
On the bus ... Running: Sweating the Details. This post, on being dedicated to a serious training regimen, has been rattling around in my head for a few days. Blogger Brad links to the post-run strength routine he does as well as a training article called "The Kenyan Summer," intended to help high school runners build a base for fall cross country.
For a few minutes, I pictured myself jumping in. I clicked on the link, read it, thought about the heat and realized that I'm approaching a critical point in both of my sports: deciding how much effort I'm willing to put into each, and how I'm going to adjust my attitude and expectations accordingly. More on this later, I'm sure.
Other Voices: Being Chased Down By A Car. Mom Dorothy Beal thought her biggest obstacle was her mindset going into a run pushing three kids in a stroller and sweating under the hot sun. Instead, it turned out to be a psychopath driver who pulled up beside her, screamed obscenities at her and followed her as she tried to run away.
Beal's post isn't just about adding to the unfortunately large pile of stories in which "running while female" proves to be a huge liability — she wanted to share what she did right and wrong in handling the situation, and several commenters joined in the discussion. (I always bring my cellphone now that I'm in a new city; this is a good habit, according to the post and the law enforcement official who commented.)
Still, it's incredibly frustrating that on every blog I read (no matter the topic) there has to be a story on how to protect yourself simply because people are bat-shit crazy and because you are female.
Running Is Funny: Women Marathoners Rank 978th on This List. On a somewhat lighter note, Mike at Running Is Funny shared a Deadspin post whose topic I will delicately summarize as "what women's sport has the most attractive participants?" After the top 10, the author jumps to 978th and ranks both women's basketball and women's marathon:
"I can’t imagine anyone getting off on watching 80-lb. women struggling to finish a full marathon."Wait, has he ever seen pictures of female marathoners? Every Runner's World I receive shows toned — not gaunt — athletes of both sexes with defined-but-not-gross six-packs. And I really don't understand the "struggling" reference ... no doubt professional athletics, particularly marathons, are physically demanding, but these people train intensively for competition.
On the bus ... Running: Sweating the Details. This post, on being dedicated to a serious training regimen, has been rattling around in my head for a few days. Blogger Brad links to the post-run strength routine he does as well as a training article called "The Kenyan Summer," intended to help high school runners build a base for fall cross country.
For a few minutes, I pictured myself jumping in. I clicked on the link, read it, thought about the heat and realized that I'm approaching a critical point in both of my sports: deciding how much effort I'm willing to put into each, and how I'm going to adjust my attitude and expectations accordingly. More on this later, I'm sure.
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