Happy New Year everyone!
I'm preparing for the move down to Arizona on the 2nd of January. Lots to pack up, lots of loose ends to tie-up.
The new year will have many, many more blog entries, and with far too much time on my hands in Scottsdale I'll try to put together some especially interesting ones. For this week though, I'm only going to recap my favourite five entries of 2011. In no particular order, here they are:
Five kay, okay?
I wrote this entry because at the time I was very much enjoying a certain book by a certain author and wanted to borrow his style. This entry is my idea of stream of consciousness, and it is nearly word-for-word the thoughts that were running through my head during the race.
Haters
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Accountability Epidemic
The obesity "epidemic" could be solved if people changed the way they think. But they don't, and they won't, and obesity rates rise.
A Review of the Current Trends in the Modern Elite Athlete Diet.
Athletes are slightly obsessive. If you tell them that they'll have better results by doing this or that, they'll probably do it. Myself, I don't ingest much dairy, because some dairy products make me bloated and fart. I've tried gluten-free and didn't feel better, or even good; I felt worse. The paleo-diet is too stupid for me to even consider. The fake dairy study that I mentioned in this entry was only a slight exaggeration of so many studies for exercise nutrion. Most studies want to find a certain result, and if they can produce it, despite using a protocol that is awfully flawed, they will publish it. Inevitably, people will trust such studies. Hence the paleo-diet.
Bad news for you, fish
If you've never read The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, go find a used bookstore and buy it and read it. It's one of my favourite books. That one simple line, "Bad news for you, fish," means a lot to me. It's also really funny that the old man is shit-talking a fish.
And here's two videos from 2011 that I enjoy:
