What's Happening???

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  1. Deidre

    Deidre Follow thy heart

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    Windy here, too. It's nice though. Unexpected.
     
  2. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    Picture of a Marine who dragged himself across the finish line at the Boston Marathon



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  3. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    He should have been fitter than that. >.>
     
  4. unfocusedanakin

    unfocusedanakin The Archaic Revival Lifetime Supporter

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    Running a marathon is well beyond normal human abilty. I don't think 26 miles is a fair standard for health. What boot camp wants to see is he finished I'd bet not the time or how soon he got there. That is the Marine attitude.
     
  5. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    Don't Kenyans and Ethiopians do this all the time with great success?
     
  6. unfocusedanakin

    unfocusedanakin The Archaic Revival Lifetime Supporter

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    They do but they run more than the average American. Most Americans in boot camp don't have that kind of background.
     
  7. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    You’ll be happy to know Nascar Driver Jimmie Johnson ran the Boston Marathon in 3:09 just one hour behind the Ethiopians, Japanese, and Kenyans

    I'm impressed - seriously
     
  8. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    A lot of the African long distant runners train here in America at altitude in places like Boulder Colorado and New Mexico
     
  9. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    Yeah JJ does a lot of marathons and bike rides. :)
     
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    Pff fail. You gotta do the idk.

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  11. Irminsul

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    Metal head speed dating

    Her: I've got two tickets to Iron Maiden ba..
    Him: next!
     
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    Driftrue Banned

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    Oh yes, dark chocolate is definitely more my thing. Can enjoy that and not feel sick for three hours afterwards.
     
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    *evolving
     
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    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    Ughh the tattoo place my miss was going to in a couple of months is in liquidation process. The artist has contacted us and told us his new work space and kept our same appointment, but we might have lost the deposit from the other place.
     
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    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    Was almost staring down the barrel at a 3 game losing streak in madden, uncharted territory for me. Down by 11 less than 5 to go and the drive of the century scoring TD with 19 secs to go. Yee-ah Boyz.
     
  17. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    I don't get the combi with wine or beer though. It's better with coffee, tea or milk imo
     
  18. Wizardofodd

    Wizardofodd Senior Member

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    I saw that. I hate to be a skeptic but that looks like it was pretty easily staged to me. And even if he was really injured and it was all legit.....the news story I saw looked like they were just framing it as their usual propaganda.
     
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    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    I’m not skeptical because it happens every year at the marathon.

    30, 000 people register for the marathon every year, but there’s another 10,000 than run for various reasons and causes and are simply not prepared to run 26.2 miles.
     
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    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    I find myself in a tough situation because the workers at my grocery store of choice Stop and Shop are on strike and I don’t want cross their picket line,


    On the other hand the store is convenient, I like the layout, and they have items unique to their store – so what to do?
     
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