This juicy little data bit appeared in today's WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204261704574274070492669550.html
Interesting turn of events you might say. And speaking of Boston....The last three books completed for some strange reason all shared a common subject. See if you can figure it out!
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Haruki Murakami.
Chi Running. Danny Dreyer.
Once A Runner. John L. Parker, Jr.
As an editorial footnote, exactly 101 years after the fellas in the above photo ran the first Boston Marathon, I did mine. 3:18:24 if you must know, a mere 23 minutes off that day's winning time of 2:55:10 by John J. McDermott of New York, with the kicker being that the course that fateful spring morning was officially "only" 24.5 miles.
But he probably had a real job and therefore a limited amount of training time.
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Stories like this remind me of flea circuses. You need to separate the smart fleas from the dumb fleas to have a circus. How is that done? Put the fleas in a bottle and hold one side close to a heat source like an incandescent light bulb. The smart fleas move away from the heat while the dumb ones die. What does that have to do with people? The smart ones do life-affirming healthy things while the dumb ones don't. It just takes a little longer for the effects to show up.
Beautiful. I have always described the circus as that period of time it takes to separate the fleas. Abundance (heat) does funny things to people too, certainly three rings worth.
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Wyoming? Nice work!!!
Murdo, wy is a very happening place. They put cinnamon in the pizza crust and give you a bottle of liquid frosting so you can eat the crust for dessert.
Sounds like my kinda town....
OOpps, Murdo, SD not wyoming. Murdo is a tough place to wrap your brain around: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murdo,_South_Dakota
Is there a saloon there?
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