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Latest Bike upgrade project: 1987 Cannondale SR500
Hope the image fits if not, right click and open image in new tab (or copy and paste this: http://i48.tinypic.com/mooix.jpg) Upgraded from stock 6 sp Shimano 105 (1050) to 8 sp Shimano 1055 STI. The front d (FD-1050), rear d (RD-1050), crank (FC-1050), headset (HP-1050), stem (Nitto Young), seat post (Sugino SP-K), and bar…
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Another explanation why coconut oil is interesting to us
Just looking for articles on fat metabolism (or specifically catabolism) during exercise and came across this paragraph. This is the way I try to explain coconut oil, but this is much better worded than mine. Unlike long-chain triglycerides, ingested medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) are directly absorbed into the blood and…
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Is there anywhere in this town where we could buy a. . . shrubbery?
One that looks nice and is not too expensive.
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I think I need a more friendly diet drink
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It's that time again. . .
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Chit-chat, Fun, and Culture?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, . . .
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In which we quote Python at each other.
In honor of the upcoming reunion show, we can relive some fond memories by taunting each other with outrageous accents, listing all the things that go with spam, or maybe even something completely different Now. . No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle!
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Build thread
More or less a place holder because it's all useless without pictures. . . but all parts are acquired or en route. Here's what I'm starting with:
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Hard work pays off eventually. . .
Laziness pays of now. . .
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Anti-Success.
That time when one says he will be taking off from work for a trail race and is met with bemusement to the effect that running isn't for him because he is still obviously overweight. I have 120+ miles per month and average 8:30 pace that says differently. I about died from the irony.
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Three Fitness "Tests" You should pass.
As seen on MSN Healthy Living this morning. http://healthyliving.msn.com/fitness/3-fitness-tests-you-should-be-able-to-pass?FORM=ML0V1X&OCID=ML0V1X (warning: there's an auto-play video in the article) Also, I recall from an earlier Mens Fitness article a reasonably fit man should be able to do 42 consecutive push ups..
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Do not click unless. . .
. . . you have some time? The scale of the universe. Because science! http://htwins.net/scale2/ A middle school science project. Geez. Mind. Blown.
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In which I say, "Da hell?"
For those of you that watch or have watched television circa mid 2000s. . . http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/nbc-brings-heroes-back-as-13-episode-event-series-heroes-reborn-20140223 NBC rebooting Heroes as Heroes: Reborn It was an ok show for at least the first two seasons. . . anyone remotely excited about this?
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In Which The USPS commemorates my childhood
Via the AP "Hip-hop will be commemorated by a postage stamp, but no design or release date is set." Geez.
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Your lightning rod of hate
Need to vent? Someone cut you off in traffic? Bank charge you over draft fee? Found a gray hair? Take it out on me. I'm having a wonderful day and life is good.
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One sign you love running (too much)
other ones here http://blognar.ragnarrelay.com/2014/02/10-signs-that-youre-totally-in-love-with-running/?utm_campaign=10_Signs_You%27re_Totally_in_Love_with_Running_
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Ear worms? (stuck music syndrome)
The Letter Black - "Sick Charade"
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Sherlock (BBC One) Series 3
Series summary: Wow. Anyone else?
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Ture or False: Too many "person above you" threads
True! Curmudgeons unite!
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WalkyDog for kind of cheap.
Today's Sellout Woot http://sellout.woot.com/ $30.00 shipped If you're into that sort of thing
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Keeping hope alive for the New Year
http://bloomington.craigslist.org/mis/4267589122.html Love is ALIVE!
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Song stuck in your head Right This Very Second?
Ever have that day stuck in your head and it just plays over and over and over and over. . . . like a broken record. Thousand Foot Krutch - Break the Silence
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I just love his story. . .
I wish my wrong turns worked out as well. . . Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/26/woman-wins-full-marathon-by-mistake-after-taking-wrong-turn-in-half-marathon/
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Dismayed the lack of thread subversion
However, one could surmise that as a "fitness" site we are, for the most part limited to related topics, save for the occasional "superficially quantify me" threads. It stands to reason that the only common denominator is the basest common denominator and we really don't have that much, really, to talk about.
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Staring Contest. . .
Go!
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Monty Python Quote-a-rama.
"I think it was, 'Blessed are the cheesemakers'" "What's so special about the cheesemakers?"
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Frash thread. . .
Iiiiin west Philadelphia, born and raised. . . .
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Food Pr0n
