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"I just wanna drink beer and train like an animal"
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Today 14.5 miles @ 7:20 p/m
Needed this one. Seeing as I'm carrying my phone w/ me on all my runs lately (for fairly obvious reasons) I've been listening to music on it (something I rarely do on runs as I usually enjoy the silence. Today I went on Spotify and threw together a playlist of about 35 songs and just hit shuffle and off I went for the run.
The weather was great and all was right in the world- my mind drifted a good bit and I started thinking about Garth Brooks and why it annoys me so much that he has sold out 5 nights and counting in an 80,000 seater stadium here, in a country that I've chosen to raise my kids in :mad:
Am I just a snobby, judgemental New England prick who hates the South and the culture wars they've brought my country? Probably but as my tunes skipped around from the Clash to Tribe Called Quest back to Guided by Voices and Nas, I realised something- music has historically been something that pushes barriers/ breaks down doors, gives the establishment a good kick in the ass when it needs it. From rag time to jazz to son to punk, reggae and hip hop good music is thoughtful and pushes your brain to think of different people, places and ideas. Garth Brooks is the exact opposite to everything I've described. He is the voice of being "careful now" -he is safe, he represents god and guns and the good old USA and traditional values- the Iona Institute homophobes love him. Needless to say I snapped out of it, my ears jarred by the sharp punk rock tones of a song called "i'm dating Louise Woodward" by the Showcase Showdown, I forgot about Garth and picked up the pace as a big **** you to his big fat stupid cowboy hat and everything it stands for.
What the hell does this have to do with running? Why is it in my log? Well, its my ****ing log so that answers question 2 and question 1 is easy- distance running, racing, hard training and the like sure as hell ain't easy, safe and careful. Every day we go out there and run, we are affirming that there is something different about us. Every time you feel the pain of a hard rep you are giving the metaphorical finger to our contemporary culture of 20min gym, skyrocketing obesity and a lazy, sheep like society. I know this sounds adversarial but sometimes on long runs, my mind wanders and it can be really good to connect with what motivates me….
So- to say **** you to Garth Brooks and all his ilk, I lace 'em up everyday. Thank you for listening to my rant…. normal service will return tomorrow
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Just seen your sensational rant! Funny stuff.
I'll be honest though. I've been to the USA 4 times, have visited 10 States, seen many cities, towns, countryside, even lived there for a brief while (Hawai'i) but the best place I have visited by a country mile (pardon the pun) was Nashville. Words can't describe the level of craic we had there. It's a seriously top notch place. Love the country music also, and without it we never would have seen Rock n' Roll, and then all the other versions of rock which spawned then from that.
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Not running related but we had a beautiful baby girl this morning- tried to name her Genzebe Dibaba Quirky but got vetoed:(
In all seriousness over the moon and thanks for all the good wishes etc. I reckon she's probably already a better athlete than 99 percent of Sister's Pearse
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Not running related but we had a beautiful baby girl this morning- tried to name her Genzebe Dibaba Quirky but got vetoed:(
In all seriousness over the moon and thanks for all the good wishes etc. I reckon she's probably already a better athlete than 99 percent of Sister's Pearse
Congrats DrQ. I love that on this special day you still found time to squeeze in some Bros Pearse bashing :pac:
I'll let it slide just this once given the day thats in it. Congrats again.0 -
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theboyblunder wrote: »Congrats DrQ. I love that on this special day you still found time to squeeze in some Bros Pearse bashing :pac:
I'll let it slide just this once given the day thats in it. Congrats again.
By the way before TBB gets dibs on your new additional. We want her for our female juvenile section. Wouldn't be surprised if TBB was planning on having her as the sister's 2nd scorer on their senior men's team 0 -
By the way before TBB gets dibs on your new additional. We want her for our female juvenile section. Wouldn't be surprised if TBB was planning on having her as the sister's 2nd scorer on their senior men's team
Hahaha I wouldnt be spouting about team scorers if I were you. While you beat us in the team comp on sunday we were down two planned starters, and our first 4 all finished well ahead of your 4th man.
And they all broke 90. And all our team were sober
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theboyblunder wrote: »Hahaha I wouldnt be spouting about team scorers if I were you. While you beat us in the team comp on sunday we were down two planned starters, and our first 4 all finished well ahead of your 4th man.
And they all broke 90. And all our team were sober
Hey feck off, you're embarrassing me now :mad:. You do realise Tunguska pulled out injured at half way?
If you are going to use the excuses line, well we would have been 2nd at worst but for that...0 -
Hey feck off, you're embarrassing me now :mad:. You do realise Tunguska pulled out injured at half way?
If you are going to use the excuses line, well we would have been 2nd at worst but for that...
Ahh I know. that was mean but he did bring up scorers! And tallaghts 4th man had a shocker . yeah heard about tunguska and im not happy hes injured of course. Its a squad game meno... One of ours couldnt make it and another was ill. One likely to be around where I am, the other faster.
What the hell happened to you anyway? Your pb is 1:24 right? Our 4th man wasnt even aware there was a team comp. He just rocked up and ran a sub 90 pb. Were thst kind of club - perform our best on the day 0 -
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theboyblunder wrote: »Ahh I know. that was mean but he did bring up scorers! And tallaghts 4th man had a shocker . yeah heard about tunguska and im not happy hes injured of course. Its a squad game meno... One of ours couldnt make it and another was ill. One likely to be around where I am, the other faster.
What the hell happened to you anyway? Your pb is 1:24 right? Our 4th man wasnt even aware there was a team comp. He just rocked up and ran a sub 90 pb. Were thst kind of club - perform our best on the day
TRR was trying to guilt me into racing it on Saturday night but thankfully we had another man show up on the day (the lad just behind Ecoli)so the pressure was off me. Tunguska puling out was obviously not part of the plan...
I was doing MP but had a total mare; fell off pace after 9 miles and jogged home. Was contemplating my future after the race but have had manflu ever since, just finally recovering today. Not nice to have manflu but almost a relief that was probably the cause of the explosion.
Yeah I was running beside your sub 90 guy for a lot of the race, he had a stormer...0
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