An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest — although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week.
It’s never too late!
The majority of sunscreens on the market today are more harmful than beneficial. Sunscreens are designed to decrease your risk of skin cancer and allow you to enjoy the sun without worry. Unfortunately, most modern day sunscreens may increase your risk of cancer and disrupt the…
That’s the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life is.
- Kara Goucher
Perfect.
(via saintleorunner)
Source: run-done
After Facebook’s disastrous debut, the preferred clients of big banks walked away with huge profits. How? Public documents and interviews with dozens of investment bankers and research analysts reveal that the Street caught wind of something the public didn’t. The social network and the banks told half the story. Here is the other half.
Is there a shadier company than Facebook?
Super happy with this run. 8:54 pace is really fast for me… Wow, it’s been too long to get here after all the struggles with knees, ankles, changing shoes, changing stride, etc.
Typical run for me too. Starts of terrible, but my pace gets faster and faster with each mile:
Mile 1 - 9:28
Mile 2 - 9:18
Mile 3 - 9:15
Mile 4 - 8:20
Mile 5 - 8:34
Last .46 - 7:55 pace
I’m back. :)
P.S. I use the Runmeter app for iPhone. It’s awesome.
Holy shit, Yahoo. You can’t play with my emotions like this. First, you tell me you purchased Tumblr - not good in my opinion. Then you make an insanely awesome upgrade to Flickr - which I abandoned a while ago - and will now rekindle my love.
Hell of a day.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times. The deal announced
Shit. I was just starting to like Tumblr. Hopefully, Yahoo doesn’t kill it like so many companies it purchased in the past.
Long live Tumblr!
I must be allergic to iron because I’m all swole up.
This is Lacey. She’s lifting a 150 pound stone. Awesome.
The very idea of god is challenged by a simple look at our world. We live in a beautiful symphony of nature on this tiny planet, hanging in a forgettable corner of a small galaxy within an unimaginable universe that could not care what we believe. To say god made all this for us is to say we were made to be insignificant.
If you consider the incredible scale of the known universe, the thought of our planet being favored and only some of its people being “chosen” becomes obviously false — at best. And worse: ridiculously arrogant.
