Today is Halloween, an excellent time to be someone you’re not. Two years ago a friend of mine dressed up as “The Joggler” for Halloween. It was really great. She had the JYAJ logo and everything.
Usually, I go as a magician. I know how to do a bunch of card tricks and other small, entertaining [...]
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In my quest to live to 107, I’m always looking for things to do that will improve my chances.
According to this report in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, you can reduce your biological age by up to 12 years just by maintaining your aerobic fitness. The reason is that as you age you [...]
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Readers of Just Your Average Joggler know that one of my goals is to live to 107. So, one of the aims of this blog is to disseminate information about how to do that through exercise, healthy living, and healthy eating. This blog is about the latter.
10 Superfoods
This article over at Men’s Health lists 10 [...]
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Hey joggling fans! Earlier this month, we told of some jogglers around the country who were going to participate in events.
Albert Lucas joggling
As a follow-up, I found this news story (video) of joggling pioneer Albert Lucas. Too bad they have to play the corny circus music!
Albert is going to be attempting to break the world [...]
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We first heard from Tim when he contacted us here at JYAJ back in March 08. He was new to joggling then but has now embraced the sport. He even began a website to collect names of jogglers from around the world. That way if you want to joggle a race in a different town, [...]
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Two days after the Chicago Marathon a strawberry fruit bar and a browning banana were the only edible post-race items left. I ripped open the wrapper and in two bites the mushy, crumbly bar was gone. I sipped some freshly brewed green tea and picked up the banana. The snap of the peel signaled the [...]
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In an attempt to keep an eye on all things in the joggling world, I find all sorts of mis-uses of the term joggling.
The errant use of the term Joggling is varied but it typically takes the following form.
1. They meant to type “jogging”
2. They meant to type “juggling”
3. They are using the term to [...]
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Here’s a nice long joggling article about Joe Welling, a St. Louis area juggler who intends on club joggling a half marathon. This joggling sport is just sweeping the nation isn’t it?
It seems Welling has been a joggler for some time beginning somewhere during the mid- 1980s. Interestingly, he says one of the biggest challenges [...]
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I know, I’m still working on the Chicago Marathon race report but the joggling world continues.
This happened about a year ago but I just stumbled upon it now. Turns out, the uber-popular and amusing website Fark.com linked to the story about breaking the 50-mile ultra marathon joggling record.
The original story is no longer on the [...]
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It’s taking me forever to finish my Chicago Marathon joggling race report, so I thought I’d just quickly put down my time and alert you that a race report is coming.
Time: 3:39:36
Darn! Miss a palindrome by 3 seconds!!
No, I didn’t qualify for Boston either. My goal of 3:20 was shot by mile 15. I was [...]
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