after the marathon

LOL. check out this youtube video. it's kind of a smarmy ad implying that if you run a marathon you will have a good, strong, and healthy heart, which isn't necessarily true. it's a lot more complicated than that. just ask jim fixx or ryan shay... they haven't determined the cause of death for shay yet, of course, but my money's on his heart. which isn't to say that running caused either of these mens' deaths, and there is an argument to be made that fixx, anyway, lived longer than he probably would have if he hadn't started running at 35 (his father had died of a heart attack at 42, and fixx lived to be 52, so...), only that running didn't ensure heart health.

anyway, with disclaimers, this video is funny. this is exactly what i probably looked like, the day after i ran the vermont city marathon back in 2000. i especially love the guy at the end, after the logo-flash. (i guess they had to use a guy for that one...) ganked from runners:

edited to add, for your listening and viewing pleasure, my favorite band from high school:

eyman, meet court; court, eyman.

the WA state supreme court ruled that tim eyman's (2001) initiative 747 is unconstitutional because it misled voters.

hopefully that will happen with his latest one, which passed in tuesday's election, too.