Go big or go home

So I was watching some skateboarding at a local bar when I received a visit from the incorporeal form of Captain Obvious himself. The slogan for the X-Games should be "we who are about to die salute you." I guess for the first part, you can replace "Hail Caesar" with "Drink Red Bull" or something like that.

I was looking for a visual to support my point, and Google managed to find me one in 0.15 seconds. What a wonderful world we live in. Here you go:

A-Fraud

Well, good thing that the folks handling big time athletes have come around on the McGuire strategy. A-Rod's coming-out was way less... clumsy. Still, it sucks that the one guy who could've knocked Bonds off has an asterisk too. Sucks even more that Bonds still hasn't been man enough to admit it.

I know that I for one am ready for everyone to shut the f**k up and play from frickin' baseball. Either that or I'm just boycotting it all in favor of rugby, where the performance enhancing substance is beer. Lots of beer.

Didn't Gump already do this?

A bunch of RIT kids run cross country. 2 miles per shift, 1 shift every 3 hours, 8 shifts a day, 12 days. Considering the setup, the kids were on an absolute tear: about 6.5 minutes/mile. Sounds like an adventure

On the road again

Running with a friend, I'll probably work out some sort of time goal as the training proceeds. I think I probably also just wanted another chance to feel like I this: