I'm sitting on my couch watching the Chicago marathon...out my window. Time to go walk the dog and yell and scream at the crazy freaks out here near mile 15.
Results 1 to 11 of 11
Thread: Cool World...
-
10-12-2003, 08:16 AM #1
click click boom
- Join Date
- Nov 2001
- Posts
- 11,326
Cool World...
Last edited by truth; 10-13-2003 at 11:51 AM.
-
10-12-2003, 10:09 AM #2
click click boom
- Join Date
- Nov 2001
- Posts
- 11,326
After furhter review, I have a question.
Is it really an accopmlishment to walk 26 miles?
I mean there is no doubt that to struggle through the 26 mile distnce and finish is a noble cause, but is it really so special if you're walking at the 13 mile mark? I mean to not be able to complete half the distance in something resmbling at least a jog seems to me as if you just plain did not do your homework. I can understand that some who may be ready will have off days, but I am watching hundreds and hundreds of walkers. I don't get it. Seems like they should be trying to finish a half marathon first.
That said, the crowds were overwhelmingly huge as the weather here today is superb for this time of year Totally cool to see so many people here kicking positive vibrations out to strangers. Gives me some hope.
-
10-12-2003, 11:50 PM #3
In van, down by the river
- Join Date
- Nov 2002
- Location
- Eagle River Alaska
- Posts
- 10,962
anybody remember cool word?
Its not that I suck at spelling, its that I just don't care
-
10-13-2003, 12:33 AM #4
<--You are what you eat
- Join Date
- Oct 2003
- Posts
- 611
I remember A Brave New World. Very odd book.
Last edited by Castro's; 10-13-2003 at 12:38 AM.
-
10-13-2003, 02:01 AM #5
Registered User
- Join Date
- Oct 2003
- Location
- The avocado jungles east of Bakersfield
- Posts
- 53
Huxley wrote another book much more interesting (and relevant to this sort of errr community...) than Brave New World.
Check out Doors of Perception. A cool read."Do you know what PBR stands for? Delicious."
-
10-13-2003, 02:12 AM #6
Registered User
- Join Date
- Oct 2003
- Location
- Earth-ish.
- Posts
- 659
At like whistler it was like on the last mile and they were fucking runing like a bat out of hell drenched in sweat I was impressed. I ran to the gondola house and passed out.
No.
-
10-13-2003, 09:21 AM #7
Registered User
- Join Date
- Sep 2002
- Location
- MT
- Posts
- 1,368
that is my favorite book of all time.Originally posted by Castro's
I remember A Brave New World. Very odd book.
what is doors of perception about?My Montana has an East Infection
-
10-13-2003, 11:33 AM #8
High; pockets of Extreme
- Join Date
- Feb 2003
- Location
- North Coast
- Posts
- 2,615
Never read the book, but isn't that where Jim Morrison got the name of his band?
-
10-13-2003, 11:50 AM #9
click click boom
- Join Date
- Nov 2001
- Posts
- 11,326
Tallys in toady's Chicago Tribune estimate that there were 1 million people lining the route of the race, myslef included. There were an unkown number of dogs.
-
10-13-2003, 11:57 AM #10
Funky But Chic
- Join Date
- Sep 2001
- Location
- The Cone of Uncertainty
- Posts
- 49,304
Yes.Originally posted by Cornholio
Never read the book, but isn't that where Jim Morrison got the name of his band?
Not the band Yes, the word yes.
-
10-13-2003, 12:06 PM #11
Registered User
- Join Date
- Oct 2003
- Posts
- 3,303
Ah, you're bringing back memories. I remember getting dry-humped in... I mean, I ran the Chicago marathon in '97. Great course 'cause it's pretty much flat except for the Lakeshore Drive on-ramp. The crowd was crazy, especially in Lincoln Park on those narrow residential streets. It felt sort of like wearing the yellow jersey in the Alps with the crowd pressing in. Or something like that.
Last edited by Schmear; 10-13-2003 at 12:17 PM.
Bookmarks