May 2012
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I’ve been participating in a study related to female endurance athletes and lung capacity, which has made me feel sort of awesomely like I’m in a Gatorade commercial, and this morning was the final fitness test. I had to ride a stationary bike for various intervals with 80 little sensor dots on my torso to measure my breathing while a doctor and two Master’s students hovered over...
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Okay, fine, it’s pronounced Keith Sweat as in rhymes with pet. Chris could have put the world’s foremost pronunciation expert in front of me and I never would have believed him, so instead I checked with Kevin Fanning and he told me Chris was right.
I owe him a Corona-rita.
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lifeaquatic asked: How was your race? Are you happy to be out of Pittsburgh?
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Dick's Shitsburgh Marathon Recap
Well, I broke 4 hours. 3:57:17, or thereabouts. It was horrible. I said I wanted to break four hours in a marathon at some point in my life, but I didn’t think it would be today because I was coming off an injury and I didn’t train as well as I wanted, and I ate like shit the day/week/month before, and most importantly Pittsburgh is hilly as fuck AND it was 80 degrees today and the...
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Currently reading
Megan: What about Raptor Red? Me: I …. did not want to be seen reading Raptor Red in front of my in-laws Megan: hmph Me: MEGAN it’s a dinosaur romance novel Megan: I TOOK IT ON THE SUBWAY
Me: Oh, I’ll TAKE IT ON THE SUBWAY; I don’t care about the subway. Shit, I openly read Twilight on the subway. I care about people I know seeing me read it. And not even most people...
