[quote]Patti's Hubby wrote:
Almost no money, no car or anything except my running clothes and a Martin twelve string guitar.
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Hi Dan; actually, if you were really broke, it would've been a six string guitar. :>)
What a nice surprise. I just peaked over here after taking the kids to a movie, and whole A-team is up, posting.
I remember the Allston NB factory/store. The then GF (now the overworked Mrs. Spider) lived in Allston for a while, and I used to look at the Allston NB Outlet Store for cheap remainders.
An actual running question: do you folks (Dan, TTFlyer, etc) think good young runners should try to marathon earlier than they often do now? I'm thinking of good-but-not-great college runners who are unlikely to make the Olympic 5k-10k team or get a good shoe contract. Corollary question: do you think it is possible (for these same runners) to run well and work? I know BR once said "no one with a job can beat me" (but heck, no one else was beating him either). But a fair number of excellent runners did 100mpw and yet worked (a large number of them seem to have been teachers); and working even less-than-glamorous jobs can still take care if issues like health insurance and food. A couple even went to med school (Sandoval, Kempainen -- though I don't think anyone had any thought to training during internship and residency).
P.S. Pino's Pizza for breakfast? I think I did the same with Pinnochio's Pizza, Store 24 Pop-Tarts, and Entenmann's chocolate chip cookies. No, I don't think BR cornered the market on questionable nutrition.