November 2009
MOTIVATION: Marathon Round Up (via pinkhotel)
pinkhotel:
I think it’s pretty safe to say that everyone who knows me (in real life and via this little blog) knew I ran my first Marathon on Sunday.
It was equal parts amazing, overwhelming, thrilling, and a little bit painful. Surprisingly the thought of “Why the fuck did I decide to do this?” never once popped into my head while running- it did however come into my head numerous times...
MOTIVATION: reading up on it.
Natalie Portman: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals Turned Me Vegan
Natalie Portman’s Review of Eating Animals on Huff Post:
Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist. I’ve always been shy about being critical of others’ choices because I hate when people do that to me. I’m often interrogated...
Baby, we were born to run. →
caryrandolph:
Last year in the United States, 425,000 marathoners crossed the finish line, an increase of 20 percent from the beginning of the decade, Running USA says. [This Sunday] about 40,000 people will take part in the New York City Marathon.
The scientific evidence supports the notion that humans evolved to be runners. In a 2007 paper in the journal Sports Medicine, Daniel E. Lieberman, a...
MOTIVATION: straight bummin...
outofhabit:
my apologies…for all the negativity on here as of late. hopefully i’ll be filled with the holiday spirit in the near future [or even just some good meals with friends within the next week] and things will start to turn around.
perhaps tomorrow, if i run, i’ll treat myself to a starbucks beverage in their classic red holiday cup. i mean, that can’t make things any worse can...
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and...
– Maria Robinson (via rangerchic)
Only you can make you happy.
gretagirlguide:
I am pretty confident that underneath it all we all know and believe this. Yet, I also think we allow the external environment influence and coax us into thinking we need people and things to be happy. Well, to some extent those things absolutely contribute to our happiness, but they are not the basis- you are.
Often this very simple truth is muddled by the complications of...