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Think You Can You Beat Me? An Open Challenge

August 23, 2011 By Joel Runyon 19 Comments

I had a really fun time racing with with Johnny at the Sylvania Triathlon last week. It was a lot of fun to not only do the race, but do it with someone, and then be able to hang out with them afterwards and talk for a bit. It was a really good time. There's a seeming under-representation of bloggers in the Midwest and it was pretty fun to hang out with someone like Johnny and share an experience with. I've been thinking lately that between now and my ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Fitness, The Impossible, Updates Tagged With: Awesome, exceptions for awesome, Racing, racing readers, readers

People Are Awesome

July 22, 2010 By Joel Runyon 42 Comments

Note: was going to attach this post at the end of my last one, but as I wrote it, it kept getting longer and longer, so I decided to just make it it’s own post. People are awesome. Seriously. People are way more awesome than we give them credit for. Yes, there are a handful of jerks whose sole existence is to suck the life, dreams & happiness from you because they’re upset about their own unfulfilling existence, but there are way more awesome people ...

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Filed Under: Fitness, Hacks Tagged With: Awesome, Bill & Ted, Encouragement, People, People Are Awesom, Support, Triathlon

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