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Author: Paul Radcliffe
November 11, 2013
I’m running. Standby.
A little corollary to a post I made a few months ago about a lot of running in the new Star Trek Movie. I saw this animated GIF on Tumblr and had to share it. In this scene, Engineer Montgomery Scott (Scotty) is running down a very long room. Simon Pegg who stared in Run Fatboy Run really sells the scene and provides some comic relief in a very tense part of the movie. This article says that Pegg ran so fast that he after the 3rd taping of running all out, he threw up. I just thought that the phrase “I’m running. Standby.”[…continue reading]
November 6, 2013
On Uniforms
While cheering on runners during the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon events a couple of weekends ago, I noticed a lot of running uniforms featuring club affiliations as well as charity logos. It made me think a lot about the nature of how an individual sport like running can also have a team aspect. I understand and appreciate that elites wear uniforms to display their team and/or national colours for sponsorship purposes. I imagine that the logos on elite runner uniforms are really important for their sponsors. I recognized the Running Room sponsored athletes. I noticed all the Kenyan elites in[…continue reading]
November 4, 2013
Dopey Training: Week Minus One
As far as I’m concerned 2013 is already a bad memory. My last race of 2013 is in the bag and I feel like I learned a lot of hard lessons from my struggles this year. I’m already squarely focused on 2014! Andrea made a really nice comment on my last post: Here’s to the end of the 2013 running season and onto great things in 2014. I have huge hopes for 2014, so I might as well start now: Run the Walt Disney World Dopey Challenge is right at the start of 2014 which will include my first full marathon[…continue reading]
