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Monday, December 20, 2010

Shutting it Down

I read this article this morning.  According to Pew Internet (giggle!), we're all lame:
Overall, virtual worlds and blogging aren’t very popular in any age group, which probably indicates that tools such as Facebook and Twitter – which also enables users to express themselves online – have substituted blogging for many users. E-mail, on the other hand, has become nearly ubiquitous, even among adults ages 74 or over.  
This settles it.  I'm quitting again.  I have to be cool.

Just kidding.  I'm just shutting down running until 1/1/11.  I went about .25 miles last week before my IT band reared it's sinewy, ugly...uh....head?  Until then, it looks like a lot of cross training and elliptical boredom for me.  Oh, and did I mention that a friend of mine teaches a spinning class?  He offered to let me join in and embarrass myself.  Should be interesting.  At the very LEAST, a blog post.

Here's wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas* and Happy New Year!  I leave you with one of the best scenes from one of the most underrated Christmas movies of all time.

*Yeah, that's right.  I said "Christmas".  F**k this PC sh*t.  It's Jesus' birthday.

6 comments:

Colin said...

I don't know what all you have tried to get rid of the ITB issues but for me doing hip hikes during the time off made a HUGE difference. I had tried everything from PT to active release therapy. Doing hip hikes until I started to feel the burn on each side really made a big difference. Right now I do 3 sets of around 50 on each side to make sure the ITBS doesn't come back. Just wanted to through that out there in case you hadn't tried it. I know how frustrating getting over that injury can be!

Viper said...

Happy winter solstice! Good luck healing. Cheers!

TCHusker - Nate said...

My IT band started acting up on Saturday. Bleh.

RunnuRMark said...

Not underrated in my book, pal! That's one of the best Christmas movies of all time. Have a good one.

P.S. - I hear eggnog works wonders for the IT band. At least if it's heavily spiked...

Nitmos said...

Has someone been watching Fox News lately?

Adam said...

I'm with Mark - eggnog is the best trick for the IT band. Did he mention that you actually have to rub it on your legs, not drink it?

Post pictures please.