Subaru: Moral Support

Friday, August 17, 2012

I really like TV commercials. After all, once you understand that the commercial is the REAL content and the programming is just to keep your butt in the chair between commercial, you can begin to enjoy them.

Recently I posted a Nike commercial about an obese 12 year old boy in London, Ohio out running, trying to get into shape.

youtu.be/2JnYcuRW_qo

This commercial is a real feel good bit. His sweetie is in some bicycle ride, a race? And she is struggling. He is there for her. He uses his Subaru to run in front of her and meet her with encouragement.

  

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SPIRIT42013 8/18/2012 1:18AM

That's why I have a Subaru, like most people in Colorado! Report Inappropriate Comment

RWDaily.com Motivational Poster

Thursday, August 16, 2012

You know I like those posters from RWDaily.com. This is number 33. They say it is the last one ... on RWDaily because RWDaily is changing it's name soon.

Anyway. Anyone who runs, walks, cycles, ... shoot ... even drive, know this clown. I have met them with lights on their roof and a shield painted on the door. Dumbasses.



RE: the end of yesterday's post, Rock 'n' Roll told us that they would be announcing their next international tour stop today. It was going to be someplace tropical an someplace nice. Tropical? Rio!!

No, it's Nice France. Hold on. I am pretty sure Nice is not between 23.5ºN and 23.5ºS. Someone failed sixth grade geography. Nice, France shares latitude with Idaho, Montana, Michigan, Maine, Nova. Scotia. ... Inner Mongolia!!!!!

Inner Fracking Mongolia!!!

  

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KAYOTIC 8/17/2012 11:42PM

This made me smile... thanks! Report Inappropriate Comment

JINLYNN 8/17/2012 7:54PM

Nice could be nice - at least it isn't Inner Fracking Mongolia!! Report Inappropriate Comment

DEBBYFROMMT 8/17/2012 9:38AM

LOL Tropical? Hey Montana is tropical! Report Inappropriate Comment

Going to run in ...

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

... Dublin!



Rock 'n' Roll opened registration today for their Dublin Half on 5 August 2013. I happened to open my facebook 2 minutes after the announcement. I immediately registered. I wanted the €36 early registration. SCORE!

And as long as I run at least one US Tour Stop I will get this cool medal:



This is going to be fun.

Tomorrow they are announcing their newest International race. Some place tropical, they say. Hmm. I am betting it's Rio.

  

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HONBAD 8/16/2012 10:38AM

Good for you!! Nice looking medal too. Can't wait to hear about it :) Report Inappropriate Comment

-DYET- 8/16/2012 9:50AM

WOW!! How awesome is that!?!?! Report Inappropriate Comment

RHONDALYN10 8/16/2012 8:57AM

How wonderful! Ireland is my dream run!! Can't wait to hear all about it! Report Inappropriate Comment

-POOKIE- 8/16/2012 8:50AM

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DEBBYFROMMT 8/16/2012 8:38AM

Holy cow, registered for Aug 2013 already? Cool! Report Inappropriate Comment

BLUE42DOWN 8/16/2012 1:58AM

Very cool! Report Inappropriate Comment

JINLYNN 8/16/2012 12:14AM

Sounds great. Nice medal. Report Inappropriate Comment

Shoes!

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Someone asked me how often I change my shoes. So I got to thinking about my shoes, all my shoes.

I can easily recall a time when I owned three pair of shoes: a pair of black oxfords for dress, a pair of sneakers for almost everything else, and flip flops were for the beach and doubling as my slippers.

Now. Sheesh.

In my room, my office, my refuge, yea verily my cave, I have an old bookcase upon which rest my shoes.

I have three pairs of Brooks Adrenaline on my shelf. I rotate through those for training. I retire a pair to walker status when one pair reach 300 miles. The current walkers become mowers. The current mowers go in the recycle bin at Fleet Feet when I go in to get a new pair of trainers.



I have my Brooks Cascadia for trail running. They don't get a lot of use so I will wear them as walkers when I want a sneaker that looks a little nicer.



I have my race shoes. Brooks Pure Connect. They do not come in the wide sizes that the Adrenaline and Cascadia do, but I like them because they hug my feet. Last Saturday, not so much though. It was hot and I think my feet may have swelled a bit. I had to stop once to loosen the laces and once to check to see if my sock had a fold in it; it did not, I think swelling may have cut off some blood flow.



I have my bicycle shoes. Yep the fancy ones with the clip on them. Sadly, I have not gotten up on my bike since March when I got the concussion. So those are gettin' a little dusty.



I also have a pair of Vibram Five-Finger. I keep giving them a chance, but they are so totally different from what I am used too, I may never get used to those.



Also on my shelf are a pair of boat shoes,



black oxfords,



brown loafers,



two pair of sandals,



and some flip flops (for the pool, so I guess they are technically sports shoes).



And next to it are my cowboy boots,



work boots, which I bought in a hardware store in of all placed Ireland for 30 euros because they were much like hiking boots which I needed for my climb of Croagh Patrick,



and actual hiking boots (also sports shoes I suppose.).



She(WMBO) came in to my refuge (the only room in the house that is mine, mine, mine, all mine), my running room, my cave, and looked at my book case. "Got enough shoes?" All I did was get up from my desk, walk into our room, open her closet and point. Dozens of pairs of shoes. "Yes, but I am a woman. It's allowed."

And only a few years ago, I only had a pair of dress shoes, a pair of sneakers, and a pair of flip flops.

  

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JINLYNN 8/16/2012 12:13AM

I think that if I liked shopping I would have more shoes too. Enjoy. Report Inappropriate Comment

NWFL59 8/15/2012 6:41PM

Looks like a very functional collection to me. Report Inappropriate Comment

DEBBYFROMMT 8/15/2012 9:46AM

Hahahaha that makes you a shoe whore! Just kidding. I used to delegate my worst shoes to the 4H at the fair. Always seemed to get peed on by a pig. (my kids did swine at the fair). They would end up in the trash at the end of the week. Right now I have 3 pair of running shoes, one pair needs to be tossed and the other will be "yard work" shoes, and the other I only use to run. Hmmm I may need a new pair! Comment edited on: 8/15/2012 9:47:44 AM Report Inappropriate Comment

JECKIE 8/15/2012 9:16AM

Hah! I couldn't begin to recall all my shoes. Love them! (and am eagerly waiting for my new Newtons to arrive in the mail!) Report Inappropriate Comment

-DYET- 8/15/2012 9:08AM

Ha Ha!!! I love shoes of all sorts! Report Inappropriate Comment

RHONDALYN10 8/15/2012 9:01AM

Awesome.....that's all I can say.... Report Inappropriate Comment

MARATHONDAD 8/15/2012 8:56AM

ya I have several pairs of running shoes I change them every 500 kms they become by mowing shoes too lol Report Inappropriate Comment

BOILHAM 8/15/2012 5:42AM

I can relate. I have lots of shoes, too. Not nearly as many running shoes, though. I have only 3 pair. R> < BR> Report Inappropriate Comment

CORNERKICK 8/15/2012 12:57AM

Shoes!! Report Inappropriate Comment

BLUE42DOWN 8/15/2012 12:20AM

You're making up for a woman like me ... who has four pairs of shoes total, one of them my previous pair of running shoes that I need to go donate. (I do need to get hiking shoes and cross-trainers, but I cannot imagine a wall of shoes or a closet of shoes in my future.) Report Inappropriate Comment

ANGELWENDYMAMA 8/14/2012 11:53PM

I only have a couple pair of shoes. And I"m a woman.. But I want to have a few more. You seem to have adequate shoes.. Report Inappropriate Comment

SPIRIT42013 8/14/2012 11:44PM

HAPPY FEET! Report Inappropriate Comment

Left Handers Day! Hooray!!

Monday, August 13, 2012

LEFTIES SOUTHPAWS WACKY-HANDED

We color outside the lines!!

In Latin we are Sinister. (Right-handers are dexterous. Hmm.) In French we are Gauche. Really??

Today is Left-Handers Day , a very special annual holiday during which left-handed people are encouraged to force right-handed people to do everything their way. (At least according to the event's website. This is really official, okay?) www.lefthandersday.com/



HEre is the Jezebel.com site talking about it: jezebel.com/5934262/hooray-for-left+
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I went to Catholic school in the 1960s but I never had that mythical nun who would rap the knuckles of left handers. But she did always give me an F in penmanship. Which always got me in trouble which always gave me an "Oh what's the use" attitude about my grades. I always had an F on my report card no matter how hard I tried.

Sister tried to enforce a "rule" where everyone tilted their paper the same way, wrist must be straight, writing slanted the same way. For lefties, you can only get two out of three. I have a hook wrist.

But there was one girl in my class who drove Sister nuts. She followed all of the rules. ALL of them. But she did like Star Trek's Captain Kirk in the Kobyashi Maru scenario -- She rewrote the rules. She wrote UP SIDE DOWN! Starting in the lower left and working back up to the upper right.

And it irritated Sister to no end. So satisfying.

So coloring outside the lines, indeed.

  

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SPIRIT42013 8/14/2012 10:46PM

I'm glad that I never did that to a student! Of course, I was teaching dyslexics like myself. Report Inappropriate Comment

SPIRIT42013 8/14/2012 10:46PM

I'm glad that I never did that to a student! Of course, I was teaching dyslexics like myself. Report Inappropriate Comment

DEBBYFROMMT 8/14/2012 11:31AM

I'm left handed too. Left handers use the right brain. That makes you right minded! We learned cursive in 2nd grade (Catholic school too) and the nun just refused to help me, so I have always half printed and half cursive. Well, I can read it, so what if anyone else can! Report Inappropriate Comment

BOILHAM 8/14/2012 7:44AM

DW tells me the Nuns did indeed rap the knuckles of the lefties in her school, St Adalbert's in the Bronx, NY. I'm a born leftie converted to a reluctant ambidextrous person by my own non Catholic school teachers. I started school in 1950, so I imagine they let us be now. Report Inappropriate Comment

SLEEPYDEAN 8/14/2012 1:21AM

I didn't even know it was lefties day (please don't disown me, I love being among so many brainy, awesome people.) I heard stories of my aunt having her hand tied behind her back in school. My memories include my mom having trouble teaching me to tie my shoes and my dad getting frustrated trying to teach me to golf. Haha Report Inappropriate Comment

JINLYNN 8/14/2012 1:12AM

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WONDERWOMAN 8/14/2012 12:04AM

Horray for us lefties! Report Inappropriate Comment

TERID816 8/13/2012 11:34PM

I did have one of "Those" nuns! I was very competitive with my brother, who is 2 years my senior. Every thing he could do, I could do --- better! So when he went to school and learned to print, so did I, only my mother either didn't care that I was left-handed or couldn't change my stubborn little mind. So when I went off to school, prepared to print with the best of them. Forced to comply, I learned to print right-handed (which I can still do) and was forced to stand in the corner when I switched hands. I persevered and remain undaunted and stubborn and left handed, although I do play guitar right-handed, as the left-handed ones were S-o-o expensive! Report Inappropriate Comment