How very Wuffo of me

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So with all the activities that I have done, and had people ask my why I would do such a thing I was looking at the newspaper today and said, "Why would anyone want to run 26.5miles?" Then I had to laugh at myself.

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My sister is a marathon runner and for a long time I just didn't get it. Until I became a skydiver freak and realized she feels the same way about running! She wears a runner charm around her neck and I wear a skydiver charm around mine

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My sister is a marathon runner and for a long time I just didn't get it. Until I became a skydiver freak and realized she feels the same way about running! She wears a runner charm around her neck and I wear a skydiver charm around mine

What, does she wear shoes around her neck?

That seems very bulky.

Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing.

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I had a party a few months back where I invited my skydiver friends and my whuffo friends. I had to laugh at a moment when two skydiver friends were talking to two friends who have run Ironman triathlons. Both sides were calling the other "crazy." It was all good-natured, but it just goes to show, crazy is in the eye of the beholder.

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I thought it was Ironic...

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So with all the activities that I have done, and had people ask my why I would do such a thing I was looking at the newspaper today and said, "Why would anyone want to run 26.5miles?" Then I had to laugh at myself.

yes, keep the people who would say "Who would jump out of a perfectly good airplane?" with the people who would say "Who would jump out of a perfectly good airplane?".

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So with all the activities that I have done, and had people ask my why I would do such a thing I was looking at the newspaper today and said, "Why would anyone want to run 26.5miles?" Then I had to laugh at myself.

yes, keep the people who would say "Who would jump out of a perfectly good airplane?" with the people who would say "Who would jump out of a perfectly good airplane?".

Where's a prefectly good airplane?

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So with all the activities that I have done, and had people ask my why I would do such a thing I was looking at the newspaper today and said, "Why would anyone want to run 26.5miles?" Then I had to laugh at myself.

I've run two marathons... the latter one in 3:29:12... I was a long-distance runner before I started skydiving.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

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Okay people running the marathon I can understand, its the audience who I get confused about. At least if there are wuffos at the DZ they get very neat sights, and very colorful conversations....

Sudsy Fist: i don't think i'd ever say this
Sudsy Fist: but you're looking damn sudsydoable in this

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but i guess if they have their favourtie runner running then some like to go and support.

But yer i agree, its pretty dull to watch a hundred or thousand people just running down a road for 26 miles

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But yer i agree, its pretty dull to watch a hundred or thousand people just running down a road for 26 miles

And I think its pretty dull to watch some tiny spots in the sky coming down and then seeing some people land somewhere on a field...
Swooping, of course, is a different game

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how true

Although i don't swopp (as you probably guessed), but it sure is fun to watch.!

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but it just goes to show, crazy is in the eye of the beholder.

nah usually its in the eye of the one who talks to elves and invisibale people.

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So with all the activities that I have done, and had people ask my why I would do such a thing I was looking at the newspaper today and said, "Why would anyone want to run 26.5miles?" Then I had to laugh at myself.

Would that make you a Ruffo?

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***What, does she wear shoes around her neck? That seems very bulky.



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So with all the activities that I have done, and had people ask my why I would do such a thing I was looking at the newspaper today and said, "Why would anyone want to run 26.5miles?" Then I had to laugh at myself.

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Funny you should say that...

My better 1/2 is a runner, did 8 marathons last year, and just signed up today to do the Rome Marathon...

She was pushing me to instead of being a water bearer and cheerleader for her, run it too!

...The only 'running' I do is to 7-11 for another pack of smokes, and to the plane when I'm late for a 5 minute call!!

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Okay people running the marathon I can understand, its the audience who I get confused about. At least if there are wuffos at the DZ they get very neat sights, and very colorful conversations....

I went out to Coeur D'Alene to wach my friend run Ironman, and despite the fact that it was a 17 hour day, it ended up being pretty fun to watch. I wouldn't have gone out there unless he was in it, but I obviously found myself watching lots of people other than him, as we only saw him five or six times throughout the day as he went by. It may not be as exciting as watching skydiving, but at an event like Ironman, it's pretty damned inspirational to watch a bunch of "normal" people who decided they could do Ironman.

Let's just say I was surprised by how NOT bored I was.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

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I think people on the other side of the line, are just trying to make sense of what the see. Run 26 miles , jump out of an airplane, swim 2.4 miles - bike 116 miles - run 26.2 miles .

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Well look at this. Pretty much you can just decide to do a Jump. You can got to you local DZ and for the most part do a tandem, and have a story to tell some people. however with a marathon you really have to work to get up to that distance. I mean you can't just go out there and say hmmm I feel like running 26 someodd miles today. Most "Normal" people would probibly give up after 5 miles the most. It takes a lot of hard work just to get up and do one marathon... also is 5k really a fun run? Let met tell you after about the first 2.2 it starts to reall suck. I am more of an 800m runner myself.

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I know i should update my profile, but i got 60 jumps under my belt (probably not as many as you), i finished the marine marathon this past weekend on 3:35.53 (first marathon) and i'm training for my first half Ironamn in june (yes i have already done triathlon, just short ones). Now, do you think i'm just making this up?

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It's actually 26.2. :) It was originally something like 22.4, then they extended it in Europe so the Queen could watch it, and poof, we got 26.2. That's why at mile 22.4, you're supposed to shout out "God Save the Queen!"

11-'thon veteran. Ow.

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So why do you do it?

God save the queesn,
She's a fascist machine,
she made you a moron....
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It's actually 26.2. :) It was originally something like 22.4, then they extended it in Europe so the Queen could watch it, and poof, we got 26.2. That's why at mile 22.4, you're supposed to shout out "God Save the Queen!"

11-'thon veteran. Ow.

please tell me you're not that stupid?

have any of you heard of the town called Marathon in Greece? i know its not in America, so its not really important, but surely you know of the history of he marathon?

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Hey Ian, Peter's assessment of the changing of the distance of the marathon is correct, just slightly different in length. Why the personal attack about stupidity? How many marathons have you run?

http://www.athensmarathon.com/marathon/history.html

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Do you know thats the first time Ive heard about the history of the marathon. Thats a pretty amazing story! Ive love reading stuff like that!