This is just amazing. Ride the Lobster is a unicycle race in Nova Scotia Canada that was done in 5 stages covering 800km (or just about 500 miles). The winners finished in 36:17:47 which pencils out to a pace of about 4:20 per mile pace. That’s crazy!!
How many bike riders out there [...]
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This is part of a series of posts answering the oft asked question, “Why Do You Joggle?”
Everyone in this world has their own special set of talents. They are inside you just waiting to come out.
Waiting for you to discover them. Unfortunately, your talents are like the red suit in the Greatest American [...]
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We first mentioned David Livingston last month when he reported that he was attempting to joggle for 18 hours.
Well, that event happened over the past weekend so you might be wondering how he did.
The crack reporting staff here at JYAJ searched high and low for the results and is happy to report that they’ve found [...]
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Today, I am retiring.
Not from joggling however.????????
I’m retiring from my day job at Alberto Culver. Since 1992, I was a cosmetic chemist who put together formulas for hair and skin products. But after 191 months, I’ve done all I wanted to do there. It is a great place to work and I wish everyone well. [...]
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Some might say that juggling a marathon is crazy. How can I disagree? But there are other marathon runners that do even crazier “stunts”. Consider the following list of marathon stunt runners.
Top Ten Stunt Marathon Runners - Excluding Jogglers
10. Dark Marathon. Running in Nevada during August isn’t fun for anyone. Of course, [...]
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Joggling is truly an international sport. Here’s an amusing anecdote from our South African joggler Flurpy.
10 K Joggling Report
I did this 10k today in Grabouw, a small town near Cape Town, famous for it’s beef sausage (”boerewors”) and apples. The sponsor of this race is one of the apple farms, so all runners [...]
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We first learned of Timothy Perram from the joggler forum run by the IJA. This is a place where lots of jogglers talk about some of their latest races. We asked him to tell his story here on JYAJ and he happily obliged. Tim is a 26 year old joggler living in [...]
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Big marathons like London, Chicago, and New York attract different types of runners.
There are the pros who are out there to win fame and fortune. In the London Marathon, the top runners share $295,000 in prize money.
There are the weekend warriors who use marathons to prove that they still “got it”.
The goal makers [...]
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Yesterday, I had a decision to make. Would I stop the running and juggling streak at 444 days or not?
I really didn’t know. The streak had become such a regular part of my life that it was difficult to imagine not having it. It’s also taken so long to build, I would [...]
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As regular readers of JYAJ, you may have figured out that my favorite number is 44. I’m actually a fan of numbers in general and was pleased to find this Archimedes-lab site.
In it, you can get answered the question you’re no doubt wondering, “what is special about my favorite number?”
Just go to the website [...]
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