Never mind the fact he's happily married, LetsRun.com's only blogger, Scott Anderson, leaves an impression on women years after the fact. He has been written up in the NYTimes "Modern Love" section.
This definitely is Scott Anderson:
It all got started with this:
http://www.letsrun.com/scottanderson.html
An updated post by Scott here
http://www.letsrun.com/2008/washed-up0710.php
The NY Times article brings up an interesting debate on whether you should google your dates.
She's pretty accomplished. Wejo, you should find her and ask her out! Doctors make great wives.
http://www.us-irelandalliance.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=378
Joanna obtained her bachelor's degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a Mitchell Scholar she obtained an MA in Anglo-Irish Literature at University College Dublin. After returning from Ireland, she was an Americorps volunteer in Washington, DC. She has completed her third-year as a medical student at Johns Hopkins University. She was named the 2005 winner of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Contest for medical students in the US and Canada. Her poetry was also selected for inclusion in the anthology, "Best New Poets 2005." Joanna's writing has appeared in JAMA and the Journal of Medical Humanities, and is forthcoming in the Bellevue Literary Review, where it received Honorable Mention for the 2007 Bellevue Literary Review prize in poetry. She has taken a leave of absence from her medical studies to pursue a joint degree MFA in Creative Writing at the John’s Hopkins University Writing Seminars.
Speeding Dater wrote:
You read the strangest sh!t, Welton.
Image:
http://tbn4-beta.google.com/images?q=tbn:65i7MoJowXASsM:http://www.worldsmostbeautifulnation.com/usa/women/pearson_joanna.jpg
She DEFINITELY needs a facial!!!
She's a little too accomplished and driven for anyone on Letsrun.
i google people too wrote:
She's pretty accomplished. Wejo, you should find her and ask her out! Doctors make great wives.
http://www.us-irelandalliance.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=378Joanna obtained her bachelor's degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a Mitchell Scholar she obtained an MA in Anglo-Irish Literature at University College Dublin. After returning from Ireland, she was an Americorps volunteer in Washington, DC. She has completed her third-year as a medical student at Johns Hopkins University. She was named the 2005 winner of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Contest for medical students in the US and Canada. Her poetry was also selected for inclusion in the anthology, "Best New Poets 2005." Joanna's writing has appeared in JAMA and the Journal of Medical Humanities, and is forthcoming in the Bellevue Literary Review, where it received Honorable Mention for the 2007 Bellevue Literary Review prize in poetry. She has taken a leave of absence from her medical studies to pursue a joint degree MFA in Creative Writing at the John’s Hopkins University Writing Seminars.
so: 4 years college, 1 year masters, 1 year volunteer, 3 years medical school, 1 year masters in creative writing
= 10 years of life
without really doing anything
i guess it must be nice to have daddy pay the bills
so one can pursue being a creative medical writer?
yeah, she is a great catch, this one just keeps going to schools hoping to meet an unsuspecting sugar daddy it seems like
running guy wrote:
so: 4 years college, 1 year masters, 1 year volunteer, 3 years medical school, 1 year masters in creative writing
= 10 years of life
without really doing anything
i guess it must be nice to have daddy pay the bills
so one can pursue being a creative medical writer?
yeah, she is a great catch, this one just keeps going to schools hoping to meet an unsuspecting sugar daddy it seems like
ever heard of financial aid? her masters was paid for, americorps isn't really volunteer work: you are supported, her creative writing is certainly supplemented either through teaching or scholarship (my roommate is in the same program). medical school one can't figure out, but there are loans for that.
are you jealous? i'm sure when she has a ba, ma, mfa, and an md, with published work across the academic spectrum, she will have a lot of difficulty making any money. especially with that MD. how will she ever pay the bills? jackass.
Back to the article... She's a little paranoid and it apparently showed. Who cares if she said she could smoke him on a run? Did she think he took that seriously? It's called flirting. I'm sure he was just glad she was a runner. But then she goes and says she hates running. I'd like to read the guy's side of the story.
running guy wrote:
so: 4 years college, 1 year masters, 1 year volunteer, 3 years medical school, 1 year masters in creative writing
= 10 years of life
without really doing anything
i guess it must be nice to have daddy pay the bills
so one can pursue being a creative medical writer?
yeah, she is a great catch, this one just keeps going to schools hoping to meet an unsuspecting sugar daddy it seems like
What have you been doing lately asswipe? Newsflash: most of us (99% and probably you too) won't accomplish anything of note while we're alive nor will most be remembered by the general public after we die. Medical school's a grind and you don't get into Johns Hopkins without being pretty bright. It seems like this girl's enjoyed her 20s. She has the rest of her life to work and make money.
boy you people with sugar daddys sure get bent out of shape
she may be a great woman, but she comes across as a flake that does'nt have to work and therefore can flounder through life from one thing to another without ever really having to hit the grind,
and med school is not the grind, the residency is
all that and she is still writing about a date she had years ago with a skinny runner guy, sounds sad
Is that you Marijuologist?
wejo wrote:
Never mind the fact he's happily married, LetsRun.com's only blogger, Scott Anderson, leaves an impression on women years after the fact. He has been written up in the NYTimes "Modern Love" section.
This definitely is Scott Anderson:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/fashion/14love.html?ex=1379044800&en=f7707f1fe2d8ceb4&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalinkIt all got started with this:
http://www.letsrun.com/scottanderson.htmlAn updated post by Scott here
http://www.letsrun.com/2008/washed-up0710.phpThe NY Times article brings up an interesting debate on whether you should google your dates.
thats too funny. the small knit community that we are. Its not hard to find out whos who.
he wasnt married at the time was he? LOL
Seriously running guy, give it up. She is doing a lot with her life it seems, despite not grinding away at a factory as you might like. Doesn't seem like the idle trust fund life to me.
getting old wrote:
Seriously running guy, give it up. She is doing a lot with her life it seems, despite not grinding away at a factory as you might like. Doesn't seem like the idle trust fund life to me.
You're missing the point -- because he grinds his life away, we all should too, even if we have other more enjoyable, financially viable options.
By the way, tell an Americorps member that what they're doing is neither work nor stressful. Good luck with that.
We should all fall in line and work like real men, you knuckleheads. Don't bother enjoying yourself, improving yourself. Do what others do or you're not going to be respectable to the crowd!
she does not even run, and sometimes she lies about it
game over
sounds like she really wishes things had gone differently and still has a crush on the guy...
After reading the article (but before seeing this thread), I was curious who the author was talking about. I'm frequently impressed with the detective work of Letsrun posters with time on their hands; this time, being in the throes of procrastination, I thought I'd try it myself. So I googled "4-minute mile" and "University of Chicago," and quickly came up with Scott Anderson's name (and picture, even), along with an interesting essay he did for Business Week online.
Not being familiar with Scott, I then did a search of this board, and came up with the news of his engagement and marriage (as well as this thread).
It's a little creepy, how easy it is to find stuff out about people.
A woman was genuinely impressed and intimidated by a male runner's PRs...Why didn't any of these women go to my college?
In this day and age of lies and deception, yes, it's quite all right to google someone. In fact, it's a matter of life and death in some cases. Take a person I'll call John Doe, whom I met. He said he ran a recent half marathon--so I checked the results. Sure enough, he did. He said he was new to the singles scene. So I checked the county court records for divorces. Didn't find them but did find he was arrested for battery of a spouse and a domestic violence case. So a girl can't be too careful out there.
Or the guy I met after a big 5K race who claimed he had qualified for Boston twice, yet didn't know what time he had to meet. I became suspicious when my 5K time was 3 minutes faster than his. Sure enough, he was 25 slower than the 3:20 he needed to qualify. So Google is our friend when people try to pull the wool over our eyes.
it's all about the pr and we all know how inflated those get in a moment of letsrun glory. :)
