[Greetings, calendarians, it's Positivity Wednesday; and, continuing right

along with paying tribute to folks I don't know but whose exploits we can

all pretty much admire, I'd like to do this today for Geoff Roes, whose

"blog" has recently garnered some accolades via posts to this List, and

elsewhere. Here, you can check it for yourselves:

http://akrunning.blogspot.com/.]







Whenever he's asked for his permanent home address, he honestly doesn't know

what to say.  So basically, he just writes: Earth.



He has run practically all of it: every land mass having more than 26.2

continuous miles on the planet.  And he almost always does it faster than

anybody.



He wins 9-out-of-10 footraces he enters, and yet keeps a very low profile.

He doles out the highest praises for others in the race, and gives no

indication at all that he's just whooped their asses.



He sometimes refers to himself as a "freak of nature," which is a term most

other folks use to describe magnificent mountains, gigantic popular trees,

beautiful double rainbows, or winning the Powerball lottery.



It's been said that originally he hailed from the same state as Sarah Palin,

and that also explains why he left.



In a matter of a very few years, he has captured the first-place prize of

nearly every major endurance footrace that gives one.  And now Las Vegas has

given odds that, before another year-and-a-half is out, he'll have won them

all.  Twice.



His training log reads like a college calculus text.  He basically

solves--every day--such problems as:  "if a mountain is fourteen thousand

feet and you start at zero with just two at 6:00 AM, can a human being run

all the way up and down before breakfast?" and "if it takes just over two

hours to run a marathon, can a human quadruple the distance in twice the

time and still overtake the train that left Denver at midnight, hop aboard,

and have breakfast before Albuquerque in the dining car?"



In his spare time, he solves such other blogsite problems as:  "You have a

red jar of cedar chips.  Why do moths miss the forest?"  To which he

responds, "You return the jar to the store, exchange it for a moonshine jug,

fill it with tie-dye and old T-shirts, and watch the moths go to work.

They'll think they're "happening" in a woods full of The Grateful Dead.



He is The Most Interesting Man in the World.



"I don't always blog profound philosophical questions; but when I do, you

need to be running to answer them.  Stay training, my friends."









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See (and hear) some originals:



http://dosequis.com/



Also here:



www.eatmedaily.com/2009/06/doe-equis-ad-campaign-the-most-interesting-man-in

-the-world-video



My mark:



XX

Rich Limacher

TheTroubadour@...

["your fiendly neighborly 800-year-old lute plucker from France"--site of

the one race Geoff didn't win, probably because it was stopped]



Yankee Folly of the Day:

Mark Twain wasn't very fond of the French either.