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TimeForGuinness wrote:
Freed Roger wrote:
TimeForGuinness wrote:
12veinte12 wrote:
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07come11 wrote:I'm only about a third of the way through it but "Born To Run" is fascinating.
Reads like a long magazine article, but it's a fun theory nonetheless. Made me want to run an ultra. I didn't, but I was interested for the 2 weeks I read Born To Run.
I'm not sure about running an ultra, but I am giving a serious consideration to calling myself el Caballo Blanco.
I just finished "Born To Run"...the book is enlightening...I ran two marathons last year, and I'm running a half marathon this Spring, and the Chicago marathon this October. I plan on altering my training due to reading this book. Good thing I read it now, looks like I have plenty of time to put it into action.
It is a gratuitous and interesting read -and had a placebo effect on my running for a while.

My friend is my running guru for [expletive] like this -(sub 17 min 5Ks, Boston under 3 hours, ultraruns, geocaching type races etc). I've tagged along a few times with him and friends on trail runs sw of STL. Anyway, he has some mixed feelings about McDougall, as do I. He's a bit bombastic in his claims, the anti-running shoe stuff was a bit over the top.

Again, I enjoy reading McDougall's stuff, as a novice - but you can tell he often is just spewing info that real runners like my friend have known about for decades. Or promotes some little idiosyncracy of running like its the cure. Besides the "Born to Run" -this past year he wrote a NYT article touting "the lost secret of running". and wrote another NYTimes thing called "born to be a trail runner"
Totally understand...but it put things in perspective for me at least. It just seems to make sense, not that it's any easier. I figured most real runners understand this, but a novice like myself, can really appreciate any advice...and this makes a lot of sense to me.

I enjoy running, but I'm too focused on time/speed/etc. I just need to relax, it will all come with time. I do think I will switch from a normal cushioned running shoe to a lower profile shoe...barefooting intrigues me, though. It might be fun to try...but not right away. I think I'll have to ease into it.
Micah True, aka Cabello Blanco -found dead

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1054036
http://www.atrailrunnersblog.com/2012/0 ... -gila.html

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Only 20 pages or so into Booth Tarkington's Seventeen but am already enjoying it quite a bit.

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I'm really enjoying the A Song of Ice and Fire series. I haven't seriously read fiction since I was 14 or so. Currently on:

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IMADreamer wrote:I've been reading "Ramen to Riches" which I've found to be your typical baby boomer, yuppie [expletive] story about how anyone can be super rich if you just save a little of your paycheck each month. Of course the author is some sort of engineer that makes six figures. I could retire at 40 too if I made 200k a year. I think I'm going to write a financial book called "no seriously all those mother [expletive] who claim to have been poor but retired at 40 weren't ever really poor, but let me tell you what it was like growing up not knowing if you were going to eat dinner that night, then actually making something of yourself."

It's a long title I know, but it's a working title.
You can retire at 40 making less than half that, but that luxury comes with intense sacrifices. I've kicked around some of those thoughts, but personally I think I'd probably have more regrets about living such an austere life during my physical prime that it wouldn't be worth it.

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longhornbaseball wrote:I'm really enjoying the A Song of Ice and Fire series. I haven't seriously read fiction since I was 14 or so. Currently on:

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SPOILER: Winter is coming.

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A**hole.

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Not really a spoiler after a dozen or so characters say it in the first three books.

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Related: One of my favorite little things about Martin's books has been his house-related sigildry (the neat house logos before each chapter) and the family words.

Obviously everyone's favorite is the Starks' "winter is coming", but I love a lot of the others. Faves:

House Greyjoy (ie the longboat raider types you TV-show viewers only know through Theon so far, but they're great) = We Do Not Sow
House Lannister = A Lannister always pays his debts
House Martell = Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken. Again, TV people won't know yet, but the Martells of Dorne are some hardheaded, stubborn mother [expletive], and they are great.

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longhornbaseball wrote:A**hole.
Well, the night is dark and full of terrors.

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Maclowery wrote:Related: One of my favorite little things about Martin's books has been his house-related sigildry (the neat house logos before each chapter) and the family words.

Obviously everyone's favorite is the Starks' "winter is coming", but I love a lot of the others. Faves:

House Greyjoy (ie the longboat raider types you TV-show viewers only know through Theon so far, but they're great) = We Do Not Sow
House Lannister = A Lannister always pays his debts
House Martell = Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken. Again, TV people won't know yet, but the Martells of Dorne are some hardheaded, stubborn mother [expletive], and they are great.

Rabble rabble, the actual House Lannister family words are: "Hear me roar!", they just say A Lannister Always Pays His Debts a lot.

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