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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

Chicago Triathlon 2010 [The Race That Wasn’t Meant To Be Timed]

August 31, 2010 By Joel Runyon 33 Comments

To those of you wondering - Yes, I'm alive and yes, I finished =). The biggest triathlon in the world. Done. One more thing off the Impossible List. Here's the story. The Night Before Saturday evening I headed downtown for the Triathlon Expo. An hour of chaos and a bag full free energy bars, I met up with Mark Lawrence, Nina Yau & Brandon James for our own mini-Chicago blogger meet-up. We had a nice pre-race dinner at a small Peruvian restaurant ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Fitness, Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Triathlon 2010, Chicago Triathlon Review, Cycling, Racing, Running, Swimming, Triathlon

Spontaneous Roadtripping

June 16, 2010 By Joel Runyon 4 Comments

Ashley deciding how fast she's going to run across the canyon //impossible//

Every once in a while I'll do something completely random at last minute notice. Three years ago I booked a ticket to Paris for 5 days, 24 hours before we left. Last summer I went to Jamaica for a month on 2 weeks notice. This past March on 24 hours notice, I went to Maui for Perry Marshall's exclusive internet marketing seminar. I LOVE these trips and for some strange reason, they keep happening... Last night I got a call from my good friend Jesse ...

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Filed Under: Adventures Tagged With: Bandwith.com, Bike Race, Cycling, Durham Cares, Jesse Oxford, RAAM, Race Across America, Racing

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