July 08 2008 part I

Workout notes There are thunderstorms out there, so probably some treadmill combination walking, plus yoga and leg weights.

Update 3 miles prior to yoga class: 7:10 first half mile, 13:52 first mile (felt bad), 11:59 next mile (easy 200, harder 200), 10:36 last mile (5:18 each half).

Then yoga with Ms. V. I talked to a guy who rode a bicycle on a 7 week California to Massachusetts ride.

Then I tried to do a 50 minute XC program on the treadmill. The first treadmill up and quit on me 1.34 miles into it, so I did a 40 minute version of the same course at 4.8 mph (12:30 pace). So I got in a total of just over 7 miles for the day of halfway decent walking.

While I was on the track and doing my 10:36 walking mile some obese guy was running and attempted to catch me and stay up. He lasted all of 100 meters. I wanted to tell him “relax; I’ve been there; you should just be concerned with moving forward at this point” but I kept my mouth shut.

Who knows; maybe 6 months from now he’ll be able to stay with me.

Humor/Politics

So how are Crocs doing?

The idea behind the clip is self-evident and, on the surface, seems like just another effort in the litany of attempts to tie together the two Republicans. But for a McCain campaign that is trying to re-foot itself, these missteps end up being more politically irritating. They are distractions that take away from the Senator’s focus on a coherent economic message.

Update: Chris Beam, over at Slate, has highlighted, perhaps, a more telling problem with McCain’s use of Croc: the company has “blown up in the last several months.”

Have a look at Croc’s stock price. (Symbol: CROX.) It peaked at $75 back in late October, but since then has plummeted to one-tenth of that. It last traded at $6.91. Whereas footwear like Uggs managed to outlive its initial hype and become a footwear mainstay, Crocs appear to be what its investors most feared: a fad.

Patriotic Bikinis

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