Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Average Joggler
To get to the coffee room at work, it takes me 76 steps. If I want to visit the bath room, it takes 84 steps. It’s about 435 steps from my car to my cubicle. I know this because I’ve counted.
Curiosity compels me to count.
People have suggested my proclivity for counting and [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Average Joggler
Sunday’s workout featured 18 miles of joggling on snow covered, icy paths. It even had 3 incidences of slipping and falling without making a brilliant saving catch. The pain experienced and the annoyance of running so slow is starting to wear on me. Is there anything positive about being a marathon joggler [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Average Joggler
The headline of this Reuters story seemed a bit misleading, Tokyo Marathon Runner Solves Mystery of Sore Nipples. While it is an amusing recap of one man’s struggle through the Tokyo marathon, the entire solution to the sore nipple problem is given in one sentence
…This year I bought some Vaseline. It worked, although I [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2008 by Average Joggler
There’s going to be a juggling event this weekend at the University of Maryland called the 2008 Congress of Jugglers. There will be open juggling on Friday, Feb 29, more juggling & a free show on Saturday and open juggling on Sunday. Best of all there will be joggling! It’ll be your opportunity to get [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Average Joggler
As a joggling blogger and scientist, I spend a lot of time looking through internet links and scientific papers. Here’s one about some real science looking at the benefits of juggling in older individuals. It was published in the journal Age and Ageing.
It’s interesting. They took a group of 278 older adults [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Average Joggler
Imagine the scene.
A cold, snowy, icy day in Chicago. I’m joggling my heart out down treacherous sidewalks and bike paths. As I make a turn, my left foot slips right and takes out my other foot sending me falling to the icy path below.
While falling I have enough sense to throw the [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Average Joggler
At 3:48 am a pounding headache woke me up. My tinnitus rang as loud as a fire alarm and my head felt like I’d just been cold cocked by an angry drunk after telling him he’d have to get through me before I’d let him pummel my little brother. For a brief moment, [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Average Joggler
It’s midway through training for the London Marathon and it’s starting to wear on me. Maybe it’s the looming daily run of the joggling streak, the constant leg and body pain, the hours of feet pounding, or this crappy Chicago winter weather, but my motivation is vanishing faster than a white tiger in a [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Average Joggler
Did you know that joggling is enjoyed all over the world?
Here’s a story that comes to us from Hendrik in South Africa. Hopefully, I’ll get to meet him when I joggle the Comrades Marathon in 2009 or 2010.
I was joggling with my ear phones on, and a smart dressed lady ran me in from [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Average Joggler
Joggling is a sport that attracts a wide variety of participants. In this interview we bring you Matt Feldman the youngest joggler we’ve interviewed yet. He is an active high school sophomore in Palm Beach County, Florida where he runs cross country, track, plays tennis and does a fair amount of long distance [...]
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