Comments on: Finally…I Have BQ’d!!!

By: deloosemoose

deloosemoose — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:14:51 +0000

Keith:

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:49:37 +0000

BQ, Big Quilt, the size of hanky I needed after reading about missing your BQ goal by *that much*. (Imagine the guy from Get Smart saying that.)
At least you didn’t Bodily Quackle during your run, though you might have felt like it afterward. Nobody is calling you a bacchanaling quaedam after you drank all those beverages; maybe not having the beer was a good idea, hard though that must have been for you. Still, you were only a brachypodous quantulum from your goal, keep at it.

By: Hudson Mohawk River Marathon « The Loose Moose

Hudson Mohawk River Marathon « The Loose Moose — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:20:49 +0000

[...] October 13, 2008 in Uncategorized You may have detected a tone of sarcasm in my Post- Marathon Recovery Guide for Dummies,but after yesterday’s run, I stand by my original recommendations. The ONLY way to qualify for Boston is to run on crippled knees and hips, whilst wearing battered treadless shoes. You should do this four weeks after a debilitating, demoralizing marathon, and for god’s sake, you should follow NO training schedule. Rather, just make up your own half assed one. (Although, not so half assed that it involves running naked whilst wearing a pumpkin on your head – cause that’s just plain odd.) You should definitely go in there with a bad attitude, as well, frequently mumbling “Well, THIS was a bad idea” and conspicuously massaging your battered bits even as the bus brings you to the start line. To really be sure you’ll BQ, you should also have seriously compromised toe nails - at least nine of them. I’m telling you, this works, people! I should know, because yesterday, on my EIGHTH attempt and after four and a half years of running, I have finally BQ’d. (And this time BQ actually means “Boston qualified” rather than “bonked quickly”, “behaved queerly” or “big quitter”.) [...]

By: deloosemoose

deloosemoose — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:13:18 +0000

Bbmom: Thanks!!! As far as a potential new running neighbor, let’s just say it’s not looking too good. She appears to be the makeup-wearing, clothes-shopping, tanning bed-visiting type of woman who is generally completely repulsed by the likes of me. M. was kind enough to bequeth me Joan, however. (Although it will be peculiar to have a Yonker-less Team Yonker.)
Thanks for reading and commenting, and thanks, too, for maintaining my secret identity. See ya next week!

By: bbmom

bbmom — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:45:45 +0000

I’m so glad you’re blogging!! You are a great writer–I always enjoy reading your posts on M’s whenever you wrote marathon reports. Very humorous in addition to intelligent. Don’t worry, I also will not reveal your secret identity!!
Also, don’t give up–you WILL qualify at some point. And hopefully you’ll have a new runner to induct (induce?) next door!

See you next week! bbmom

By: deloosemoose

deloosemoose — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:45:29 +0000

Joan: Thanks for the kind words – I really appreciate it. Although we really need to get you out more, ’cause I know plenty of people (and chickens, and vegetables and coffee mugs,too) with more drive and will power than me.

(And you can say ANYTHING on this blog as long as you promise not to reveal my secret identity!)

By: Joan

Joan — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:49:08 +0000

You are my inspiration. I know when I don’t feel like running that I am sure you didn’t take a day off. You have more drive and will power than anyone I know. You may have had an off day but you can’t give up. I brag about you to friends. “My friend is training for Boston”. I assume they all know about the Boston Marathon – and know how much work it takes to make it. If they don’t I do and I know you can do it. Just like a little baby may fall when learning to walk but they don’t give up. You just have to think about SEX during the run – right? (can I say that on a blog?)

By: mryonker

mryonker — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:13:51 +0000

Body parts crossed.

You’ll have to tell me all about it during our next run.

(The smiley is a colon followed by the closed-parens, as you did in your last comment. There needs to be space after the paren for it to work, though. WordPress automatically converts emoticons.)

By: deloosemoose

deloosemoose — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:57:02 +0000

Hey, M. Don’t you have a diss to write or some raspberry bars to bake? You know this whole interwebs thing will never catch on anyway. Al Gore is probably alreading rueing the day he invented it. (But teach my Luddite ass how to how to make links and create cutsie smiley faces before this fad goes by the wayside, ok?)
Although I do agree wholeheartedly that V needs a blog, and if she had one I’d sure be reading it. Hint, hint, Venus.

And “interview” does indeed equal “awesome”. Cross all your body parts at 10:00 tomorrow!

By: mryonker

mryonker — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:35:39 +0000

INTERVIEW = AWESOME!!

And I completely agree with V.

She says, “Good grief.” Therefore, she needs a blog. Let’s get V a blog.