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fleshlight. Or not.

Layton, I wish I could help you out, but as this forum probably knows I am king of running myself super exhausted just like you described. Its still amazing to me how this exact dilemma is basically the cause of 95% or the western world's health problems. If only we could all figure out how to exercise AND de-stress AND get our work done AND eat well.........good by heart disease! I've done twelve hour days a few times, and crap, they do kick your ass! One thing I did in the past is to figure out "mini" workouts in the middle of the day. Seriously, just take like ten minutes to go sprint some stairs, or throw out as many pushups here and there as you can, or even get a pullup bar for work. Plus, figure out how to do arrands on foot, ie. create a trip to the bank and lunch a three mile jog/walk. I have no chiropractor's schedule, but when I've gotten too busy to work out "properly" I've usually thought my way into a workout (its just like heroine; "how am I going to pinch in my fix today?"). Also, dude, you know your nutrition and you are super smart! You can figure this out! I guess this thread caught my eye more than most because of my dances with overtraining and running on fumes all the time, so good luck man. When you do figure something out DEFINATELY inform the rest of us!

I've enjoyed all of Jon Krakauer's stuff. The guy is nuts.

Nanda Devi by John Roskelley is pretty rediculous. Also, The Boardman Tasker Omnibus, by Joe Tasker and Peter Boardman is a great book. A more recent one I read that I thought was super good is Ed Viestur's new book, No Shortcuts to the Top. For how boring he is to listen to in speach, he does a great job of making up for it in his writing.

This one is cooler.

COMMANDO.

How about some seared Ahi Tuna with fresh handmade mango salsa? With perhaps some lettuce greens that were picked from the garden four seconds ago, and finished with a few delicious black beans? All portions are exceptionally large of course.

Anything indoors is pretty stupid.

= best spray line of the week.

Or just really scary.

:lmao:Hell yes. Not too far off the truth!

you said porn.

Apparently, you suck. Maybe you can spin it and claim coolness because you listen to coldplay, to be even hipper than the haters. Dissing coldplay is so last spring! Man, seriously. If you like something, FUCK IT! Who freaking cares whats "cool". I'll admit that I like to listen to anything from Slayer to "Jewel", to Christmas songs, to Coldplay, to Dashboard Confessional, to The Beautiful Girls, to Jack Johnson, to Al Green, Bob Marley, Ben Harper, Ratatat (awesome techno), The Beetles, Jimi Hendricks, The Chieftains, Simon and Garfunkiel, Damian Rice, Zoot Woman, Current Swell, Bob Dylan, Steve Miller Band, The Shins, Norah Jones, The Kings of Convenience, The Dixi Chicks, The Cranberries, Dido, Jake Shimabukuro (the best string artist EVER), Jason Miraz, Jurassic Five, A Tribe Called Quest, Keny G, Led Zeppelin, The Black Keys............ this list could be ten time longer...... All I'm saying is, if you care that much what other people think of you just because you like some music, YOU ARE A PUSSY. Screw it, that dude Cold Play has some freaking talent. Who cares?

I was walking barefoot on a sticky hard wood floor about a month ago and seemed to strain my plantar fasia pretty bad (I over pronate). My arch swelled up like heck, and I couldn't walk for a couple days. Now things are OK, I just can't walk barefoot for too long. It seems to me that proper biomechanics is crucial for this problem, because when I don't wear my orthotics or am not walking "correctly", it comes back in a hurry. I'm hoping this small injury doesn't turn into a big deal. Also, Layton, I read that runners and walkers who do their stuff barefoot have the lowest incident of plantar fasciitis. I'm guessing this is because they have trained themselves to have solid biomechanics and have fantastic strength in the associated muscles. Yeah?

I do the same thing. If I haven't been in my boots for a while my heels lose their calluses and blisters will happen. I too buy new liner socks every year, and I also use duct tape on my heals before I go; usually one vertical strip down the Achilles and one horizontal strip across the heal. Mole's skin works great too, but its expensive and don't seem to do any better for me than duct tape. I also actually "punched" my boots out in the heels. I've got these shitty ass bumpy heels that love to get ripped to hell. So I got the heel leather all soaked wet and heated it up with a hair dryer, then used a metal rod that I rounded on the end with a Dremel tool and bolted to a wooden plank and proceeded to smash the leather out - basically like molding a baseball glove. Now there is a nice little pocket that doesn't kill my heels anymore. But like above, the precautionary steps seem to do the trick for me. Good luck on this. Blisters have seriously been the vein of my existence!

Here is a squishy and smoochy wee slipper I'd like to have:

Sniff sniff. Ahhhhhhh, thanks Sherri. I feel so much more squishy now.

That was a really interesting article!

are ya tryin to break my heart here??? She is much older now but she is still just as cute. I feel a good cry coming on right about now...

"i think the beckey guide mentions the emmons is surging currently b/c of a massive rockslide off of little tahoma a couple of decades ago covering and insulating the lower glacier against the nasty heat" I remember reading about this a few years ago. Also, whats interesting is how much volcanic debris is packed into the lower Emmons. Seriously, when I was a kid and hiked up to the mouth of the glacier for the first time, it took me about half an hour to even realized that I was looking at a massive body of ice. To the uniformed eye, it just looks like giant piles of rock. I'm sure that this factor may be a contribution the the Emmons glacier surving at lower elevations for so long. Freaking interesting.

Is this a smoochie face?

Also true, and also probably not in our lifetimes. Well, I suppose Rainier could blow up in our life times....... and also Baker, Adams, Hood, etc. for that matter. Then the ice would be gone in a hurry. I think we will see many north cascade glaciers gone completely in this century though.

Here is what I want: Two mean canine thugs to play and run with.

Amazing... For me, losing glaciers is such a sad thing. Can you guys just imagine what it would be like to climb mt. rainier on nothing but patchy snow and rubble? Its pretty hard to say that that is exactly whats in store, but just the fantasy is terrifying.