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When I was young, there was already giardia, so you, like me, were maybe lucky.

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Take your Swedish windsprints and....

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I think I'll just drink a lot of Samuel Adams beer instead of running the marathon.

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There's a pill for that. And that.

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while rich is entirely right that most anyone can go from 0 to 60 (2 miles to 20) in the space of a summer, i will merely note that:

1. i had a dear friend train and complete the marathon will maintaining a pack a day cigarette habit. 2. this whole barfing / blood pee / uncontrolled poo thing is WAY overdone. i'm not saying it doesn't happen, it just happens a whole lot less than you'd think listening to gross out reports. now blisters and chafing - that happens.

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Ummm ... are there actually posters who suggest that the colors are more important?

That's supposed to be snark, but after a glance at RedState and BlightFart posts, maybe it's not so far-fetched.

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Why couldn't these assholes have blown up a comics shop, or video arcade (they still have those, right?)? I can handle that stuff. Movement? --<i>shudder</i>

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I have a longer one that she's welcome to smoke anytime.

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<i>for every hour of running you extend your life 40 minutes</i>

Unless you're relying heavily on Zeno's paradox, you still end up dead.

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A normal human would need an 18-foot pole and a running start to leap to Hoft's conclusions. How does he do it?

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not in chicago. the only hill- THE ONLY HILL ANYWHERE IN CHICAGO- is columbus drive the last 1/4 mile.

pissed me off so much i got thru it. which is maybe their point.

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sweet.

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I have excellent knees for someone my age, and if I'm gonna wreck them at all I prefer to do it on the ski slopes, thankyouverymuch.

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Does Colbert really have repeating family tragedies, or is Taboola recycling his old one?

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It ends when we reach 26.2 pages. Just keep on typing, people -- you can do it -- I can feel the dopamine high coming on right now.

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i'm kinda a nut about exercise (it keeps me sane - no joke) and i do many kinds. but none of them come close to running in terms of general sense of health and well being (plus lungs / blood / heart).

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