Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate
I am a militant atheist. I am a vegetarian. I am a bleeding heart liberal. I am a hypocrite. I am a runner. I currently run around 35-45 miles a week.
Finished the Xterra Mission Gorge 15K Trail Run on February 3rd.-----DONE
Finished the 9th Annual Redlands Triathlon on February 10th. 5k run, 10 mile bike, 100 yard swim.-----38th place overall // 5th place in my division
Finished the UC Davis Triathlon on February 24th. A 750 yard swim, 18 mile bike, and a 4 mile swim. 11th place in my division
Finished the Mission Hospital Orange County Duathlon on March 8th. A 5k run, 40k bike, and another 5k run.11th place in my division
Finished the UCSB Kendra Chiota Payne Memorial Triathlon on March 30th. A 1/2 mile swim in 52 degree open ocean, 16 mile bike, and 5k run. 5th place in my division
Finished the 60 mile Rick Beswick Savage Challenge in Redlands, CA on April 5th. 4 hours 20 minutes!
Finished the 12th Annual Temecula Rotary Triathlon on April 13th.2nd place in my division
Finished the Kring & Chung Newport Beach Triathlon on April 20th. 1st place in my division!!!!!!!!
Currently training for the Loma Linda 6th Annual PossAbilities Triathlon on April 30th.
Currently training for the 25th Anniversary Run Through Redlands Half Marathon on May 4th.
Currently training for the Xterra 22k Malibu Creek Challenge Trail Run on May 10th.
Currently training for the San Bernardino Sunset Rotary's 22nd Annual Tinman Triathlon on June 22nd.
July 2008 - John Muir Trail / 211 miles
August 2008 - Climbing Mt. Tom, Eastern Sierra Crest, Owens Valley, CA, 13652 ft.
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I have O.E.D
Obsessive endurance disorder
1. A disorder that leads to prolonged periods of physical activity and long periods of separation from friends and family.
2. Common symptoms are heavy breathing, profuse sweating, ownership of multiple bikes, running shoes, swimming aids, etc. Severe cases can include episodes lasting 10-24 hours. Although most cases start off mild. If left unchecked, they quickly escalate to an almost fanatical preoccupation often leaving the effected person to ask repeatedly "Why do I do this to myself?"
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"The only good race pace is suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die." Steve Prefontaine
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Walt Whitman's Caution
To The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey little;
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved;
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
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"Prison walls still standing tall
some things never change at all
keep on building prisons,
gonna fill them all.
keep on building bombs;
gonna drop them all
working your fingers bare to the bone
breaking your back, make you sell your soul
like a lung is filled with coal, suffocating slow
the wind blows wild and i may move
but politicians lie and i'm not fooled
you don't need no reason or a 3 piece suit
to argue the truth
the air in my skin and the world under my toes
labor is stitched into the fabric of my toes
chaos and commotion wherever i go"
"Ain't No Reason" Brett Dennen
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"The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation." - Emma Goldman
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"Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster . . . for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Nietsche
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