Well, I have a beautiful wife and two very smart kids, but I suppose that doesn't mean I'm not gay.
I also have met Dathan and know many of his friends through the running community. His focus always has been the 2012 marathon, which you can find numerous sources about with a simple letsrun search alone. He seems to be flying under the radar now, which isn't a bad thing. I think lower case j's has this right. Go back and read his post.
I agree with Solinsky that tinkering with form is a very risky strategy, and I remain steadfast in my comment that Dathan seek out Joe Vigil for the marathon if he is adamant about running it.
As for the market, no one alive has a crystal ball and with the Fed's audacity, ANYTHING is possible in the short run as I've already attested to, but I believe I was the first on here to ever warn about the coming deflation in 2007 (which the Fed is "fighting"), mentioned that I sold my entire portfolio in January 2008, warned that the unemployment rate was going to double digits when others were quoting "economists" back when they had it capped at 7.6%, and suggested silver, among other non-dollar denominated assets, as a great place to hide out. And, relative to US stocks, silver has been fantastic. Moreover, in real, not nominal, terms, the US stock market has gone nowhere.
Our government has put our sub-prime "sovereign" debt in an even more precarious position, even as they probably will cultivate "growth" for several quarters. But the day of reckoning will come, as we've done nothing to impose real fiscal austerity, attract capital investment, and restructure our toxic balance sheets -- only swapped them in a massive ponzi scheme between the Fed, Treasury, big banks, and the taxpayer.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2009-10-11-ritzenheinworldhalfmarathon_N.htm