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04/11/2011 19:27 #54030

Marathon craziness
Category: science
I am sure you know of people who have been couch potatoes for decades suddenly taking up running as a sport and competing in the next big marathon in town. I know too many to fit on my fingers and toes. Every time someone gets the marathon bug, they try and get me to join in the craziness (no doubt as a reciprocal move to my getting them to come to my numerous dance classes).

I dislike running. A LOT. I can walk *really* fast and probably match the pace of all 6+ footers out there with little effort but I cannot run for long. To be precise, I can run for 15 seconds before my lungs liquefy and start pouring out my nostrils... Well, they don't, actually, but that's what it feels like. It's almost as bad as trying to get used to spectacles and have the ground tilt and be all wobbly for a couple weeks. I can't take that feeling! As a result, I don't run, or wear spectacles. Usually, people try to show me the merits of joining the band of brothers^ runners and the bespectacled. However, my dislike is so intense that I refuse point blank.

And now I have scientific proof to wave in their faces (atleast for the runners... I am sure, one of these days, I will find something against spectacles as well.)

I spotted this editorial that gives an overview of studies that show that if you just run because your friends have suddenly started running or you feel like running can make up for your decades of binging on chicken wings or smoking your lungs to a nice ebony black, it doesn't help. ::READ PDF::

In fact, you end up with an increased risk of coronary atherosclerosis or myocardial scar formation due to mini-infarctions (that's a heart attack and things leading up to heart attacks). Running, for people who have not slowly conditioned their muscles over a long period of time, is injurious to their heart.

Instead, come to dance class with me! ;-)


^NB: Have you ever noticed that 95% of male actors that you look up in imdb has usually played a role in that HBO series? When they made the series, did they recruit everyone from every acting school across the planet?!
metalpeter - 04/13/11 17:01
:::link:::

Buffalo Rising Article about it opening......


Not sure if you can see these photos if you aren't logged into facebook.... If the persons photos are public I think you can but not sure...................
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tinypliny - 04/12/11 22:55
heh, spot on comments, (e:metalpeter). 26 miles is a lot and it all depends on how healthy your heart is. I am terrible shape as well - as I can tell from my lung-spilling-out feeling. The thing is I don't even want to start out slow. I want to build up my cardiac output through sustained dancing. I would rather avoid any and all kinds of running - whether it be a marathon or a 100m dash.

Yes, I saw the new Chow Chocolat store. It is right in front of the Breckenridge T junction with Elmwood. On Sunday evening the front window was all covered with paper. Did they open on Monday?
metalpeter - 04/12/11 21:06
unrelated point I was on Facebook today and saw Chow Chocolate is now open on Elmwood guess it is down by Blue Monk...........
metalpeter - 04/12/11 17:30
Not sure hat NB is and never used imdb but have heard it is a good site. What I find strange is that I have seen female actresses nude on a legit show like Californiacation (show time) and then you see them fully clothed on a show where they can't show anything is kinda odd.......

Ok back to the running with out reading the study 26 miles is fucking long as fuck .... It would make sense that you have to build up your cardio for that.... Often times you hear people say things like my legs won't go well most times your legs are fine it is that you cardiovascular fitness isn't high enough to support your legs... In terms of you running don't go do a marathon but start out slow.... Yes short people can run and some of them are pretty good but maybe your body just isn't made for it.... Or maybe it is that you need to get your cardio level up mine is crappy by the way I'm so out of shape in that way...................

04/10/2011 00:30 #54017

Dear Snow,
Category: buffalo
Please DON'T come back. Ever. We have had quite enough.
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metalpeter - 04/10/11 12:24
I agree with Terry...............
terry - 04/10/11 10:42
I second this. Snow, you had a good run, don't be greedy. There's always next year.

04/10/2011 00:26 #54016

How to make an edible rainbow...
Category: eating in
A pictorial guide...
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04/10/2011 00:16 #54015

E:Strip: In the light and in the dark!
Category: e:strip
Finally home?
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~30 mb of compressed text
~2 gigs of compressed pictures
~8 years of words, thoughts and perspectives.
AwolGMJ - 06/24/11 17:26
8 years in under 2 gigs & on such a tiny server? Well, we'll have to see about filling her up then ;-)

04/08/2011 15:07 #53999

Neufchâtel Cheese
Category: eating in
I just discovered that I like eating...

Neufchâtel Cheese!
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with salt or maybe a little pepper or homemade garam masala or all by itself.

100x more tasty and 10000x more awesome than those ridiculous Greek yogurts.

AwolGMJ - 06/24/11 17:29
I use this in place of cream cheese in recipes, and it's lighter in calories, more protein & tastes yummier. You made me hungry with that big hunk of cheese, knowing how good the stuff tastes, I want to cut a triangle out right now & nosh on it.
tinypliny - 04/09/11 06:20
They come in ridiculous tiny containers and they are not 100x more tasty and 100000x more awesome!
libertad - 04/09/11 00:27
What's wrong with greek yogurt?
tinypliny - 04/08/11 17:41
I am turning into a lagomorph? :::link:::
paul - 04/08/11 16:07
What's up with the leaves and nutts.