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Running Blog of the Month: 34,000 Miles Later

MMRC — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:55:14 +0000

Running Blog of the Month! A random Googling of “Kathrine Switzer tennis dress” turned up what is possibly the funniest running blog we’ve read, well, maybe ever: 34,000 Miles Later. Tanya’s running scenarios include the grocery carts of nuns (Lucky Charms! Crest White Strips!), dissertations on running-lingo bloviators, and the startling effect on one’s ego upon seeing oneself on the Jumbotron. She’s funny. She’s fast. If she lived here, we’d make her join the club.

But Do These Shoes Have Wings?

Iris — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:09:58 +0000

The marketing department at Asics has gone bonkers. From the Daily Mail: “The new Asics GEL-KAYANO 16 contains cushioning which expands and contracts in harmony with a woman’s hormones.” The shoe’s “technology” is based on the premise that “when estrogen is high, and a woman is at her most fertile, the arch drops. Later in the month, when she is menstruating, levels of the hormone are low but her arch is raised.” Asics calls it a “Gender-Specific Space Trusstic System,” which “recognizes the normal periodic changes [Nyuk! Get it?] in the shape of the woman’s arch and provides for the controlled deformation of the arch into the space within the system.”

Uh, yeah, okay, padding in the arch. And? $140! Want to support this lady jogger’s fluctuating arches? Call me when these suckers are made out of Chips Ahoys and Dove Bars. [Via Daily Mail]

Why Accounting Is the Appropriate Profession for Me

Blair Harris — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:51:41 +0000

I have been trying to increase my running distance and decided to run The Moonshine Run 5K course twice around.

(Please note that The Moonshine Run™ is a registered trademark of MMRC—any use of the term The Moonshine Run™ without the explicit consent of MMRC could result in being cursed for being as anal retentive as the author of this post. Just kidding, we haven’t actually trademarked it yet, so if you hurry you can beat us to it.)

Anyway, I started at my house and ran down to the “official” start line at the Madison town clock. When the club ran the course in November, we began there, so it was ingrained in my mind that I had to begin my run at that exact spot. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the route, it’s a loop course that goes right past my house.

I mentioned that this route—a loop, no less—goes right by my front door, didn’t I? Well, it was only after I passed my house for the second time that it occurred to me I could have just started at my house, turned at the Dollar General, and followed the course from there. I mean, it’s a loop! I could have effectively run 6.4 miles instead of the 7-ish that I wound up doing by first running downtown and then back up to my house. Of course, I wouldn’t have begun at the “official” starting line, and therefore it probably wouldn’t have counted as doing the “official” course.

I can be a little anal at times, which makes me a successful accountant and a so-so runner.