September 2010

What does Arizona even stand for?

September 21, 2010

I moved to Arizona on August 11, 2003, shortly after my 24th birthday and a few months removed from an internship in Oregon and eight months spent living at home and working full-time at Ikea. Having grown up in the Seattle suburb of Kent, attending community college in Des Moines, college in Pullman and spending [...]

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You might be a runner if…

September 20, 2010

Found this list over on Paul Martinez’s Tumblr page. Below I’ve reposted the content in order to better answer the questions. You might be a runner if… … you wear a global positioning system on your wrist. -Guilty. Damn. I never wanted to be one of those guys, but using a Garmin watch helps a [...]

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Hey! Those are mine! But I guess you can borrow them…

September 18, 2010

A while back I was exchanging a pair of busted KSO’s and couldn’t help but notice how busy the store was compared to last time I had been in. I was happy for the store (Whole Earth Provision, check ‘em out. I shop there solely because of their customer service), but was slightly irritated at [...]

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Saturday Round Up

September 18, 2010

Back by popular demand, here are the stories from my blog this week! Okay, I have a confession to make: no one demanded anything. There has been zero clamoring for me to summarize and re-post my weekly stories, but I see it as an excuse to write more and if you’ve been fooled into thinking [...]

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Water, water everywhere…

September 17, 2010

I’ve never put too much thought into hydration before, but I’ve had it beat into my head (almost quite literally) several years ago. Yeah, yeah we all know we should be drinking [more] water. It’s good for us blah, blah, blah… The fact is, if you’re active, you need to consume large quantities of water. [...]

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Don’t pencil it in, set in stone.

September 17, 2010

It doesn’t matter if you can run 200 yards or 20 miles. You need to establish a good routine. Chances are, if you’re running 20 miles you’ve probably got that part figured out. The rest of us, on the other hand (myself included), can be a bit lacking. Set a Schedule. First, you need to [...]

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Half and full marathon race goals

September 17, 2010

Not every runner will be competitive. Plenty of people run on their own, without worrying about time or distance. They run for the experience, they run for the feeling they get and they run just because it makes them feel good. I’m totally not one of those runners. I’d like to say I’m in love [...]

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Criticism – the fuel that keeps creatives burning

September 16, 2010

(Props to Carlos Miceli and Derek Neighbors for inspiring this post. Carlos, we need to work on your speech writing skills, though your accent is killer. Derek, we need to get you to slow down a little bit. You can’t fulfill every dream in the first six months.) There’s a lot to be said for [...]

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Questions I’ve always wanted to ask a black person

September 14, 2010

The Champ, blogging at VerySmartBrothas.com, is a treasure trove of humor. Hilarious reading every damn time he posts, and this is from a white guy who grew up in the Northwest who has very little knowledge of what I would consider black culture, namely the southern and east coast states, where what seems like a [...]

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Sunny Thaper leaves Forty for duet with …?

September 13, 2010

You may have heard the news about Sunny Thaper today. If not, or if you’re too lazy to click on the link I just gave you, he’s leaving Forty. Yes, that Forty, the agency determined to rule (maybe it was save) the world. The same agency co-founded (guessing here) by James Archer and Aaron Post. [...]

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