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B.O.W.C. Updates
Tee Minus Ten Days, And Counting
Attention dear B.O.W.C.s: You are two thirds of the way home. 20 days down, ten to go (or 240 hours, or 14,400 minutes.) Metaphorically speaking, if the Challenge was a work week, you've made it to Friday evening. Nothing but the weekend in front of you!
More...From the Editor
B.O.W.C. By the Numbers
Day 14 of B.O.W.C. (and 28 of SocialWorkout.com!) and we thought it time to break down the Challenge numbers to date, answer some questions, and generally offer massive encouragement.
We will refer you to adjacent graph, and make several salient points: Two weeks in, and of the nearly 300 challengees at our virtual start line April 1st, we are left with roughly 100 still in the hunt. The few, the proud, the achey.... Despite malicious rumors to the contrary, we are not yet half way through the Challenge. There are 18 shopping days to go. Thus, if you've logged just eight workouts to date, you're still mathematically in the running to hit the Big 26.
More...Oh Boy!
Lift Off!
Somebody flipped the switch, and things are rattling and shaking at Social Workout HQ. Suddenly the page you are looking at is no longer the "home" page. That thing above is the new home page. it's all very exciting and disorienting. Hang in there.
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Site News
Social Workout 2.0 Cleared for Take Off
Fasten your seatbelts, and hold on to your login credentials, we're about to flip the big switch here in Social Workout headquarters: Beginning tomorrow, this "blog" will live at a slightly new address. Actually, it already lives there. If you move your eyes to the address bar at the top of your browser window — easy now — you'll notice that the site you are looking at is actually "blog.socialworkout.com."
Oh snap!
This might make you wonder: Where exactly is SocialWorkout.com at this very moment? Well, SocialWorkout.com, the "page," is currently in the garage getting re-tooled. Around high noon tomorrow, post switch flipping, that URL/page will reappear, but redesigned as a front door to BOTH this blog and to our new challenge site, a.k.a. Social Workout 2.0.
Huh? Could you go over that again?
Yes. As many of you know, we've been working away on a new and improved version of this site. Well, it's high time to push our baby out into the daylight. If you haven't already checked it out, the new site is less blog, and more personal activity tracker and communal challenge site....
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Treadmill Tips
A. J. Jacobs, Healthiest Human, Listens to NPR on Doublespeed
"I listen to NPR podcasts when I work out," said A. J. Jacobs. You may recall A. J. from our interview with him last year. An editor-at-Large for Esquire and bestselling author of Know It All and The Year of Living Biblically, Jacobs is now working on a book (unofficially) called The Healthiest Human Being in the World. The book is due to his publisher February 1st, and so we went out to lunch to compare notes on fitness culture. He was coming from a Cross Fit workout that morning, and had a Bacon-Lettuce-Tomato-and-Egg sandwich, sans the "B," or the bread. "I wasn't taking it seriously enough," he explained. "But I've only got five months, so I'm getting pretty hardcore."
Jacobs' books are a trilogy. First came mind, then spirit, and now he's on body. The range of his research seems to have led to some astute observations. "Those Cross Fit people are just as evangelical as Southern Baptists," he said. I nodded vigorously. I'm always ranting about the similarity between group fitness culture and religion. Anyway, that's how we got on to treadmill habits, and he made me laugh....
"Yeah, I like to listen to NPR's Your Health podcast," he said. "But I listen to it on doublespeed. It's great. The only problem is that when you talk to people, they seem to be talking really slow. But if you listen to William Hurt on doublespeed, he's still slow. William Hurt needs triple speed."
It was a fun lunch, and now we all have an important workout tip.
Wake Up Call
You Are You
Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end--no apologies, no regrets.
Wake Up Call
Play Like You Play
It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.
Image: CvH Stafford Road Club (cyclists!) vs. Stafford Athletic Club (runners!) in 1976.
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