Tyler Weir

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• Tyler 1:26 pm on April 1, 2008 Permalink  

  city walkers, suburban drivers 

  This morning I had to drive my car a few blocks down to the post office to pick up a package before work. Only problem was I went to the wrong one. The woman behind the desk was kind enough to inform me that, given my postal code, my package was probably at the pick-up counter a couple blocks north.

  “So what you do is,” she said, “is walk to those lights there and, uh..” (at this point she noticed the key fob still in my right hand), “well I guess you could drive..”

  But really, this was said more like, “walk to those lights there and, uh, I guess you could give me hepatitis, you know, if that’s your thing…”

  Which is a stark contrast against what I’m used to in Scarborough, where women routinely say things like, “Oh you don’t drive? How do you live?” Or, even more commonly, “Oh you don’t drive? Yeah, I’m going to be busy for the next 6 months, so don’t call me anymore or anything.”

   

• Tyler 2:09 pm on January 25, 2007 Permalink  

  I like this quote. 

  From a buddy of Dean Karnazes:

  “The human body has limitations,” Karnazes says. “The human spirit is boundless.” Your mind, in other words, is your most important muscle. As a running buddy told him: “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!”

  Cite: Wired

  Tyler Weir, and Matt LeQ are discussing. Toggle Comments

   

  • Matt LeQ 3:51 pm on January 25, 2007 Permalink

    That article was sick. The thought of running back to back marathons makes my shins ache. The thought of running 50 marathons back to back to back to …ad nauseum, makes me feel like the fattest, laziest man on the planet. But also makes me wanna get on the treadmill tonight.

  • Tyler Weir 3:57 pm on January 25, 2007 Permalink

    I liked his goal of “being able to run a marathon as any time.”

    Lofty to say the least.

  • Matt LeQ 4:14 pm on January 25, 2007 Permalink

    I love the evolution of the Marathon. The legend says the first runner ran approximately 26 Miles to warn of invasion, delivered his news and promptly died, the rulers of the day decided that this would make a kick ass sport, and today thousands of people emulate this feat.

    And now, we’ve got people that go, 26 Miles is not hard enough, I’ll run back to back marathons or run one in the desert or strap walnuts to my feet and run one on the face of the sun. How will this sport progress in the future?

  • Tyler Weir 4:47 pm on January 25, 2007 Permalink

    Evolution: Running a marathon….THROUGH TIME!