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Taken from Reuters: "Modern Man a Wimp Anthropologists Say"
"If you're reading this then you -- or the male you have bought it for -- are the worst man in history...No ifs, no buts -- the worst man, period...As a class we are in fact the sorriest cohort of masculine Homo sapiens to ever walk the planet."
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Find the full article here.
Also, tomorrow is a good opportunity to put your primal imperative for strenuous exercise to work with Stacy Marple and a ride in the hills. The group will head out around 10a.m.! Bonus points if you come back with road kill for lunch!
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I'd like to read this book, but I find fault with some of his logic. I don't think its possible to determine the foot speed of a creature by its foot prints alone. Thats like figuring out how fast a car is by the size of its tires or something. But its interesting nonetheless.
I'll read this article later today, between my spa treatments.
I didn't know that Serge did modeling jobs on the side.
Aimee Mullins is an amputee sprinter. She wrote an interesting article about prostheses in sports: http://gizmodo.com/5403322/racing-on-carbon-fiber-legs-how-abled-should-...
The team hit the road today under the captaincy of Stacey M. Team consisted of:
Sherrill (I've got my colors on)
Brian (sporting heritage socks)
TomC (I love cotton! and I have bumper plates in my saddle bag)
Hung (I'm riding a fixed gear, no handlebar, sporting sneakers and I'll still smoke this ride!)
JoeP (the rabbit!)
BB (did I tell you I used to ride a lot?)
The team ride was about 30 miles of fast-paced shoulder to shoulder sprints, time trials, hill climbs, scary descents and fun!
Special thanks to Stacey and a SHOUT OUT to Hung. Great work H.
I only do it for the money I mean if I'm that yolked I may as well get some money out of it. You know I did the dude with the fast food bag, right?
Hey Howard Cosell (BB) did everyone take the same route? Who was crankin' the hills besides miss power house posterior chain herself?
Nicole, we all stayed together through Montclair, where Brian R came oh so close to getting car-doored, up Butters, and back to Joaquin Miller Blvd near Skyline. Sherrill turned off there and headed home, while the rest of us busted it up Skyline, past Chabot Observatory, and stopped for a rest at a scenic overlook. TomC had never been on Skyline before, which is pretty amazing in itself. After our rest (during which BB began negotiations with Stacy regarding what it would take to get Jameson's logo on her "prime real estate"), we continued on Skyline past Redwood Gate. Hung hung a left on Shepherd Canyon, while the rest of us followed Skyline to Old Tunnel. BB lives up there so he stopped at home and the remaining 4 (Stacy, Brian R, Tom C, me) coasted down Tunnel, then Claremont, and would our way back to CFO. We enjoyed Chorizo Scramble and other delicacies at Doyle Street Cafe, thanked Stacy, and went our separate ways.
Stacy gave us one brief taste of her true speed and power on an uphill sprint on Tunnel. Brian and I started out a little ahead of her, and she blasted by us and was literally out of sight in 10 seconds. It was truly ridiculous. Posterior chain indeed.
Thanks to Stacy and everyone who came out for a great outing and a really fun ride.
...cracks me up every time I look at it. The guy with man-breasts and enormous belly looks very satisfied with himself. Good article. One of my favorite potential t-shirt sayings is "Crossfit: Reaching your Genetic Potential" and this article hits on that theme - especially the paragraph at the end:
"We are simply not exposed to the same loads or challenges that people were in the ancient past and even in the recent past so our bodies haven't developed. Even the level of training that we do, our elite athletes, doesn't come close to replicating that."
Sounds like Stacy exposed the boys and Sherrill to a bit of challenge today. Someday when I get a bike and learn how it works, I would love to join you guys ;)
And Brad, we have already rented out Stacy's posterior chain for CFO signage for at least the next 2 years - sorry.
Um. Hung rode a fixie DOWN Shepherd Canyon? Dayum. That may beat Jacques epic fixie skid fest down Claremont (in the rain) last year.
Aimee Mullins is a badass. Cremaster, anyone?
For those who wanted to see what went down, I took a few pics along the way on today's bike ride. Thanks for leading the ride, Stacy.
http://tomcampitelli.zenfolio.com/p773266117
I think this dude is trying to drum up support for his book by saying edgy things that don't really hold up. A neanderthal can beat a human at arm wrestling? Congratulations. They are two different species. Chimps are stronger than us, too. Should we feel inferior? One set of fossilized footprints = everyone was as fast as Usain Bolt? I f*cking doubt it. The number of assumptions made in that determination must be enormous. Don't get me wrong, we are lazy and not very physically accomplished, but the claim that almost everyone running around 2,000 years ago was an Olympian is probably pretty damn thin.
Big thanks to the biking crew this morning for the good times! I wish I could claim that I was mobbing around on a fixie in the hills, but it was only a freewheel with two breaks.
brakes that is
mantelope - prehistoric humanoid that was way faster than usain bolt
mantidote - what sierra and journey need to fend off unwanted attention
manus uno - latin for coach
manatomy - the study of lau's balls
manecdote - an obviously false story of heroism, valor, or conquest
manguish - what we feel when robyn crushes us in a wod
mantifreeze - jameson's
I have to agree with Tom, the article picks the low hanging fruit (no pun intended) and I'm so glad that Joe picked it up with that very funny list, "manguish" is now a permanent part of my vocab, thank you!
Why is it just Lau's balls?