Let’s see, let’s see. What’s going on around the Internets…

1. I agree with Running is Funny: It’s time to start getting creative with mile markers.

2. I wax satirical with a review of the latest “barefoot” shoe, the Barefoot Galosh One Finger.

3. Another fun race idea: The Prediction Run. You predict your finish time before the race, and the closest prediction wins. (Thanks, Booze Hounds, Inc.!)

4. Jim Weber, CEO of Brooks Running, calls me a gazelle. Which is weird, because I’m not a gazelle. He does, however, accurately call a spade a spade. Can’t argue with that.

5.  In the About.com running forum, the question is posed: “Am I a runner if I run/walk?” I say of course you are. If I run/drink, run/snack, run/sing, run/shadowbox, run/dance, run/trip over the dogs, run/walk, run/___, and still call myself a runner, so can you. (Also? MMRCer Iris, aka sinister Wife Monster, run/walks, so who am I to argue?)

6. At the other end of the spectrum we have Bernard Lagat, who asks, “Am I a runner if I run/break the sound barrier?” and wins his eighth Millrose Games one-mile race at Madison Square Garden. He took off on the last lap so fast, everyone else looked like they were standing still. If I were able to keep up with those guys for just one lap, you’d never hear the end of it. Once I stopped puking.

7. Can a spectrum have three ends? Laura Enyon has no identity issues as a champion runner/eater. Money quote: “You can’t let the doughnuts see you get afraid.”

8. Speaking of run, straight from 1986, Run-DMC rap it old-school on Reading Rainbow and LeVar Burton’s rocks an excellent ‘do: