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The Carnival of Running #24

Welcome to the 24th edition of The Carnival of Running!

Last Wednesday, Flotrack provided this video, billed as the fastest track workout ever:

Now that we got that over with, let’s move on to the eternal question: Do two boobs need two bras?

Perhaps, but further study is needed to learn its effect on pitboob stain.

Footprints and Fingertips thinks a gluteal massage is superb, as long as it isn’t interrupted by a fire drill.

joyRuN sometimes gives impromptu butt massages of her own.

Lenore Happenstance is a devoted reader. Bingo! Instant linky love for her!

The New York Times reports caffeine is, indeed, a performance enhancer. Good news, because I’d rather crawl a 10k than give up my Kona.

You may be consuming healthy foods, but do you ever vary your routine?

The Mayo Clinic is conducting a study on electrolytes and the best way for runners to prepare for a distance race.

Would you like to see cross-country running in the Winter Olympics? There’s an organized effort to get that done.

How would you like to run a 2:04:27 marathon… and lose?

Here’s an interesting goal for a 10k – run your age.

Great video here of the Monument Avenue 10k, particularly the guy who won the costume contest by running the race dressed as Indiana Jones being chased by a giant boulder.

The Mighty Deerstalker is over for this year, but maybe next year you can run in tweeds or antlers.

Maybe the weather isn’t so great where you live, but at least you didn’t run the Cold Foot Classic in a blizzard.

You’ve heard of the Krispy Kreme Challenge, but another race features the imbibing of milkshakes, including handicaps for various flavors such as caramel cheesecake peanut butter fudge brownie. Key quote from runner Jared Bowman: “I knew I wouldn’t be as fast as Stephane or Fred. But I ended up with a six-minute bonus due to the grossness of my milkshake.”

The Windy Citizen has an article on running etiquette. The advice is pretty standard except for “Don’t complain about the workout to your partner or group.” That would eliminate most conversation after a run, and 98% of all running blogs.

Deena Kastor is a phenomenal runner, but she might have had the worst NCAA basketball tournament bracket ever.

A new study reveals that triathletes are more likely to die suddenly than marathoners. Dr. Kevin Harris “could not explain why triathletes would be more likely to die while swimming than during the biking or running legs of the race.” Really? Maybe it’s because if you have a heart attack while running you don’t sink to the center of the earth.

The Running Moron did not get his post-race lap dance.

sound mind, sound body watched the Paris Marathon up close.

Nitmos returns!

A Girl Running signed up for the Loch Ness Marathon. Good loch! If you see Lloyd Scott, it means you made a wrong turn somewhere.

That’s all for this time, friends. Our mascot for allergy season is The Running Nose. Submit your posts to carnival@runningisfunny.com. Now run away!

The Carnival of Running #23 – April Fool’s Edition

Welcome to the 23rd edition of The Carnival of Running!

It’s our April Fool’s Day edition, and for Running Is Funny it’s a time to celebrate the running bloggers who make this site the pathetic attempt at humor that it is. Let’s kick it off with a video of something that should appeal to Chic Runner – the Snuggie Pub Crawl:

The Running Laminator shows how he came up with the name for his blog.

Polka Dot Zebra was inspired by this art. Can you see the polka dot zebra? Keep staring for an hour or so.

Razzdoodle at Running Off at the Mind is an admitted tech geek, and we have the evidence.

We also have evidence that Viper at Booze Hounds has been placed in charge of British law enforcement policy.

Here’s a merchandising idea for The Running Moron – coffee cups for his readers.

aNd! could also endorse a product.

Not to mention niCk at This *Is* It. Here is a treasure trove of goodies.

For copia verborum we have a lovely poem.

Meanwhile, Nitmos at Feet Meet Street has recently been sighted.

Xenia at Diggin’ It is as indestructible as only an archaeologist can be.

I don’t spend much time at the Runner’s Lounge for obvious reasons.

joyRuN, on the other hand, is often seen there.

Running into the Sun is planning her next race.

Here’s Blair at Run to Win displaying his preferred running form.

Anne at Run DMZ shows us where she likes to run.

Jeanne is Not Born to Run. And neither is this guy.

Life Strides demonstrates where he gets his athletic inspiration.

Just Your Average Joggler has a bright future ahead of him.

Walrus to Warrior is a good transition, because both at the same time is a little weird.

sound mind, sound body was spotted recently on a date.

A Girl Running also found a companion for a night on the town.

Kara at Between the Miles is hanging out with a new group.

Pink Chick is very busy these days.

Vanilla at Half-Fast showed me the new logo for his blog. Says he got it dirt cheap.

That’s all for this time, friends. If you want to avoid working today, head over to the Museum of Hoaxes list of the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time. Submit your posts to carnival@runningisfunny.com. Now run away!

The Carnival of Running #22

Welcome to the 22nd edition of The Carnival of Running!

Not feeling inadequate enough? Here’s Haile Gebrselassie running on the treadmill:

Matt Fitzgerald wrote a profile of Geb for the Ethiopian Review that gives a new definition to “fawning.”

Still have some running self-esteem after that? Then read about Joan Benoit Samuelson, who broke a world indoor record for women 50 and older by completing the 3,000 meters in 10:22.68.

Covering that Masters Championship, Channel 8 ran with the headline, “Elderly Compete at Track & Field”. Fortunately, CNN took a different angle, pointing out that running is still good for you as you get older.

Headline of the week goes to the National Post for “Never Underestimate the Sensitivity of Nipples”. I know I don’t. And sometimes I even think about it while running.

The Vancouver Sun has a good article about running with your dog. Apparently the little darlings need to train to run with you. This is a good idea. I once saw a woman trying to run with her dachshund, yelling at the poor little thing, “C’mon, c’mon!”

Here’s a shout-out to sound mind, sound body – “a running blog by an Irish girl living in Amsterdam.” Head over there and say hi. And while you’re at it, take a gander at Walrus to Warrior, which is a running blog by an Irish girl living in, well, Ireland. This week’s entry has her tackling Killiney Hill, which you have to admit is a good name for a hill.

As long as I’m plugging blogs, copia verborum is heading to Boston next month, so wish her luck! How about a high-end carbo load dinner before the race? Hand-made cavatelli, yum! And afterwards, they have brunch!

Sara Catania seems to believe that California runners don’t spit or shoot snot rockets. Maybe not, but they will spill their white wine on you.

There are some great race names out there, but what could be better than a race on Mother’s Day called Run Like a Mother?

A study published in the Journal of Human Evolution claims that each individual has an optimal running pace. The average for males in the study was 8.3 mph and it was 6.5 mph for females. Good. Another reason for me to run with the women.

aNd! informs us, “My ass is so sore from the massage therapist!!!!” Uh, moving right along…

Washington DC Mayor Adrian Fenty shaved 15 minutes off his PR by completing the National Marathon in an impressive 3:25. The Running Moron has a race report from the accompanying half-marathon, and Jeanne at Not Born to Run PR’d in the same race. She also tells us, “I got a free massage at the end. It was an Active Release massage which involved lots of moaning on my part. Although it’s entirely possible that the masseuse also moaned.” Apparently, massages cause more “fatigue” than the race itself.

The Minnesota Half Marathon features a contest to finish exactly in the middle of the pack, plus a chance to beat the Jamaican bobsled team. Those guys need to get out of Minnesota. They’re looking a little pale.

Joseph Tame ran the Tokyo quarter-marathon with an iPhone strapped to his head, which means he had one useful implement above his neck.

The Times of London introduces us to AudioFuel, which is another service that provides downloadable music for specific running paces.

I mentioned the Stanley Marathon in the Falklands in a post last week. You’ll be happy to know the Argentine veterans of the 1982 war got a nice reception from the islanders and the British troops.

Chic Runner named her Garmin “Claude,” which is OK, but I maintain that all beloved electronic devices should be named “Robby”.

That’s all for this time, friends. It’s nearing the end of March, but don’t go out like a lamb. Submit your posts to carnival@runningisfunny.com. Now run away!

The Carnival of Running #21

Welcome to the 21st edition of The Carnival of Running!

Everyone with a running blog mentions films about running. Only here will you find clips of people running in films not about running (well, except for the short Chariots of Fire clip).

Here are some excellent videos of the Gate River Run 15k in Jacksonville, Florida. The race features a large screen TV over the finish line so you can watch yourself stagger to the finish! Outstanding idea.

USA Track and Field reports that ESPN’s ratings for track events are up significantly from last year. Audience share is still tiny, but I’ll watch track over anything except football.

I don’t know if many of you follow college track, but Galen Rupp had a pretty good weekend.

In the Swarthmore College campus newspaper, Kenneth Friedenberg describes how running is “terrifying but necessary.” He writes, “Running is the worst part of every sport, yet you choose to do it as your only sport.” You got it, Kenneth. Who the hell wants to run AND get knocked down?

These college kids must be hurting bad. At the University of Kansas, Mark Dent writes, “We live for pushing our body in ways that create new types of pain on an often daily basis, and usually do so early in the morning before school or work, or late at night, after the day is over and we should be watching TV or at least doing something that doesn’t cause exhaustion.”

Barefoot Rick Roeber is the subject of yet another newspaper profile. This guy gets more press than Ryan Hall. I wonder if running without pants would get this much attention.

The editor of Running Times magazine reports on the Asics shoe show. How bored to you have to be to get excited about a shoe show?

Motivation articles bore me, too, but I really loved this one. Two bits of advice especially: “A bad run is better than no run at all” and “Start a running blog and read other running blogs regularly.”

You might think there isn’t much to do in Jamestown, North Dakota. And you would be right. But once a year, you can participate in the Running O’ the Green, which involves hitting nine different bars during the course of the race. “A stupid, drunken orgy,” race organizer Larry Knoblich calls it. That’s an endorsement if I ever heard one.

More than 9,400 runners raced a St. Patrick’s Day 5k in Pensacola, Florida, including one guy dressed as an Imperial storm trooper and another as a cow.

A hash run in Palm Springs, California, has an unusual twist. “There will be about 250 heterosexual, homophobic urbanites running into a really, really gay bar in women’s lingerie,” Rick Tjader, one of the organizers, said tongue-in-cheek.

If lingerie isn’t your thing, but you still like to dress up, how about the Stiletto Stampede?

How do you train for the North Pole Marathon? By running in snowshoes on the beach at Coney Island.

Can music increase your endurance? A university study says yes.

If you were planning to run the Beach to Beacon Road 10K in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, this year you’re out of luck. The field of 6,000 filled up in 1 hour, 45 minutes.

Marathon registrations are up despite the sour economy, but it’s tougher for charity runners to raise money.

Here’s an interview with Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to break the four-minute mile. He’s now 80 years old. I can finally tell people I run like Roger Bannister.

Researchers at the University of Newcastle have found no scientific evidence to support claims that commonly recommended running shoes prevent injuries in runners. Great! It’s back to wearing bunny slippers for me.

The laziest marathoner ever decides he needs to speed up.

Frayed Laces tells us to beware at this time of year.

Steve in a Speedo has the finalists in the Tales of a Virgin Athlete contest. They all sound like winners to me.

If I read this right, Running on Empty wants you to tell him he’s a piece of crap.

Xenia at Diggin’ It has a vivid race report, but males might want to stop reading after the bullets.

Help Chic Runner name her new Garmin! I’m old school, so I think you should name any electronic device you love “Robby,” after this guy.

That’s all for this time, friends. Ah, spring in the air. Or as Groucho Marx once said, “Who me? I should spring in the air and fall in the lake?” Submit your posts to carnival@runningisfunny.com. Now run away!

The Carnival of Running #20

Welcome to the 20th edition of The Carnival of Running!

The race may have been months ago, but the video is new. Here’s “Out There Guy” at the Denver Gorilla Run.

USA Track and Field CEO Doug Logan thinks American athletes who set a personal best at the Olympics should get a $15,000 cash prize. What do you think?

Doug Hawley discusses going out too fast. I read it, but I’ll probably still go out too fast.

Running is hard enough, but can you do it while carrying more than 27 pounds of potatoes?

Buffalo’s Shamrock Run features a beer tent – at the start. Last year, about 200 runners who showed up never quite made it to the starting line, and another 300 started, but didn’t finish, because the route went past five saloons.

Winners of the Napa Valley Marathon receive their weight in wine.

That should interest “irregular runner, occasional foodie and frequent wine drinker” Hauling My Carcass.

I’m not normally intrigued by the history of running shoe companies, but I couldn’t pass up a story with the headline, “Shoes and Nazi Bazookas”.

Lady runners in Naperville, Illinois, were treated to paraffin foot dip after their fun run. What kind of chips go best with paraffin foot dip? I know… CORN! Get it? I crack myself up.

After your foot dip, you can head over to the Mizuno “Run With Us” mobile running lab.

If you live in the nation’s capital and have never run a 5k, now is the time, says the Washington Post. Besides, the mayor’s brother owns a Fleet Feet store.

High school track athlete Caitlin Dell has one serious training problem; neither her school nor her town has a track. So her coach has her run around the local mall.

It wouldn’t be a carnival without some mention of a Nearly Naked Run. Read the comments after the story for a special laugh.

Yet another in-depth article on “the raciest footrace in America”, the Bay to Breakers.

LaughingPlace.com features publicity photos from Disney’s Princess Half Marathon.

The Baltimore Sun tells us that the half-marathon is the fastest growing road race. But you already knew that.

Nitmos at Feet Meet Street made a brief appearance to warn us about Dick Beardsley, Mind Control Ninja.

Reporter Jill Barker calls our attention to a study that revealed all men, even those who chalked up lots of running miles, gained girth around the middle as they aged, but women were able to control their waistlines with running. So let’s hear no more stories about how unfair cramps are.

In a previous carnival, I told you about the Idiotarod. Its first cousin is the Cinciditarod.

Running into the Sun ran up 70 floors worth of stairs in under 11 minutes. Coming back down was a lot quicker.

Half-Fast is having trouble contemplating the logistics of lunchtime running. He fails to realize the problem is not the running or the showering or the time. It’s the job. Consider a new career in the exciting field of… bank robbery! Where running is a requirement.

Chic Runner and Viper both have race reports you’ll want to dig into.

Brom Hoban reports, “Some runners even think running a fast 5K is tougher than a marathon.” Some runners are kidding themselves, Brom.

That’s all for this time, friends. Let’s remember that St. Patrick’s Day, like all other holidays, serves a single purpose… as an excuse to get totally hammered. Submit your posts to carnival@runningisfunny.com. Now run away!

The Carnival of Running #19

Welcome to the 19th edition of The Carnival of Running!

Love running but hate bad weather and sweat and being out of breath? Run vicariously instead!

Tribal Running is a social network site for runners. It’s way too busy-looking for this old-timer without ADHD, but maybe you’ll like it.

This article is just a rehash of a New York Times article about the strides women’s running have made, but I couldn’t resist the headline, Running with Cervixes.

The London Times asked different kinds of runners how they get the most out of running.

The other Massachusetts towns associated with the Boston Marathon – Natick, Ashland, Wellesley – are worried about the costs of the legendary race.

Speaking of which, if you have always dreamed of running down Boylston to the finish but can’t make that pesky qualifying time, there will be a 5k the day prior to the marathon, using the famous finish line.

Meanwhile, Ryan Hall won the Gasparilla 15k, as he prepped for his first Boston Marathon.

This year the Los Angeles Marathon trades a scenic, point-to-point route for an easier-to-manage circular route.

Kenenisa Bekele says he won’t move up to the marathon until after the 2012 Olympics.

Being the world’s fastest human has its perks. While Usain Bolt drives around in his BMW M3, former champion Asafa Powell fixes Bolt’s Honda Accord.

Olympic hurdler David Oliver credits McDonald’s for his bronze medal in Beijing.

Sara Catania’s race report of the Brea 8k may not seem all that interesting, until you get to the part about the post-race buffet.

The New York Times says your athletic performance is better in the late afternoon than in the morning, but not by enough to worry about.

One more benefit for running over other forms of exercise. A new study claims running is superior to resistance training for bone density.

Austin 360 discusses post-marathon depression, but omits one important cure-all: Visit RunningIsFunny.com!

Participants in the Purdue Nearly Naked Mile will require police approval of their costumes before the race. The rules include: “All private areas need to be covered at all times,” “Speedo is the minimum – no thongs,” and “Bikini tops must provide full coverage.”

Speaking of nearly naked, city officials and race organizers have reached a compromise on how to better regulate the bacchanalian Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco.

Roman Mica lists the 10 types of runners (Part II is here). See how many you recognize.

Gonos describes his 5k experience this way, “So here I am, getting passed by children, statues and hospital patients in gurneys, while I’m preserving some energy for that last kick – and I turn the corner to find the finish line just 20 yards away.”

Does Miley Cyrus meet the definition of running? Running into the Sun says no.

Frayed Laces ran around Istanbul, which is merely a cheap excuse for me to link to my first published article, about the siege of Constantinople in 1453. It appeared in Military History magazine in April 1992. I got 10 cents a word.

Blair at Run to Win introduces something I think ought to sweep the nation – race haikus!

Not to be outdone, The Running Moron composes his own nipples haiku. By the way, Nipples Haiku would be a good name for a rock band. Or a Japanese stripper. Or a Dick Tracy villain.

21st Century Mom tells us tales of snot rags and candy bars, which of course would be a good name for a song by Strawberry Alarm Clock.

That’s all for this time, friends. Join me this spring for The Biggest Loser 23 Mile Run/Van Ride Combo! Remember to submit your posts to carnival@runningisfunny.com. Now run away!

The Carnival of Running #18

Welcome to the 18th edition of The Carnival of Running!

I know you’ve been waiting many years for the opportunity to… evaluate Steven Seagal’s running form!

The track and field typo of the week goes to the Australian newspaper with the headline, “Asafa Powell to ruin 400m in Sydney”.

A newspaper columnist completed his first marathon and learned the universal truth: “The expression, ‘You’re almost done,’ is highly subjective”, while another columnist discovered the best part of an early morning run is the guilt-free afternoon nap.

Running companions were a big news item this week. There was a woman who runs with Siberian huskies, others who ran with polar bears, the running of the brides, and running with strangers.

If those aren’t odd enough for you, you could try the April Fools Backward Mile and 5k.

Looks like the city of San Francisco may compromise on those new Bay-to-Breaker rules.

In this week’s science news, we learned that runners have better eyesight, that our toes are designed for running and not hanging from trees, and that runners crave fruit and not biscuits.

Well, maybe. But Paula Radcliffe craves chocolate, and other British runners crave pancakes so much they race with them. We even learn that bears love pancakes and running (see video).

We also know that bears love to go in the woods. Running into the Sun lists the possible side-effects of running, such as “confusion about what constitutes an acceptable toilet.” joyRuN apparently accepts side-effects and coins new terms for them, like “popping a squat in the forest.”

Jeanne at Not Born to Run explains why bagging it is sometimes your best option.

Xenia at Diggin’ It shows off a hairy coo. Once again, get your mind out of the gutter.

Who’s In First lists five fun things to do on a treadmill. Tellingly, running is not one of them. Walrus to Warrior sets out to find a core.

Non-runners shopping at race expos? Sacrilege!

Want to use Nike+ iPod technology but don’t like Nike running shoes? The Bean Pod might be for you.

The Runner Inside tries out a few running one-liners, including “if you are going to try cross-country, start with a small country.”

I’ve come to expect hash house harriers everywhere, but was still shocked to find they’re in Phnom Penh.

That’s all for this time, friends. You can run. You can be funny. But don’t be runny. Remember to submit your posts to carnival@runningisfunny.com. Now run away!