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Nutrition Rant This is entirely prejudicial. And also, satirical. Apparently you can get away with saying anything if you preface it with “This is satire.” Losing weight is hard. Eating to be healthy is hard. It just goes against everything we as animals crave. It is unnatural. I’ve been working since May to cut weight. …
Runner FAQ – Part 1 The questions never change! As an acute observer of human nature, i.e. ‘stalker’, I have been answering questions in Facebook running groups. Why not? At first I didn’t want to because the questions were all so basic and repetitive that I couldn’t take them seriously. But then I thought, “What …
What should I drink? One of the groups I follow on Facebook is “Runners loving Running”. It’s full of stupid questions. Ok…OK…I hear you groaning…they are not stupid questions, they just seem stupid to me. So that makes me a stupid observer. They ask things that are unanswerable: What kind of shoes should I wear …
Fasted Running Not ‘Fast Running’, or ‘Faster Running’ – but ‘Fasted Running’. Like running when you haven’t eaten for a long time. This week I experimented with running fasted. Why? It’s a long story. Shall we start at the beginning with some historical exposition? Or should we jump into Act Two where I’m wondering what …
How to not fall down in the trails And other sad stories of endurance… My friends, I was out in the trails this morning and I didn’t bring my phone, but I did bring my dog, and I was thinking about trail running in this season of my life and I was trying not to …
