Healthy run

through Miami- lots of places to get good food!

Shreveport in the good old days

Was a nice place to go running before conducting business the Louisiana way.

Nature's Stairmaster

Looking forward to the hike up the Grouse Grind trail, considered Nature's Stairmaster.

Ranch to McMansion

While out running this morning saw a couple working on their yard- one of the few ranch houses left on the street. All others have been converted to monstrosities.

American Dream

I beg your pardon, mama, what did you say My mind was drifting off on Martinique Bay It's not that I'm not interested, you see Augusta, Georgia is just no place to be...

A great tune by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Dam-ed if you run

Running near the Hoover Dam is scenic and quite invigorating.

LSD

Running from Evanston to LSD and coming back on RIdge...an interesting trip.

running puns

http://www.runtheplanet.com/community/humor/jokes.asp

Question & Answer

Q. How do crazy runners go through the forest?
A. They take the psycho path.

Q. What kind of shoes are made from banana skins?
A. Slippers.

Q. Why do bagpipers walk when they play?
A. To get away from the sound.

IIM pre-placement: Offers start pouring much ahead of schedule - Jobs - News By Industry - News - The Economic Times

IIM pre-placement: Offers start pouring much ahead of schedule - Jobs - News By Industry - News - The Economic Times: NEW DELHI: Pre-placement offers (PPOs) for students of the country’s top notch business management institutes, IIMs, have started pouring in much ahead of schedule.

PPOs are made by companies to candidates who intern with them for around two months during the summers. Early offers indicate employers want to retain talent ahead of the final placements in January next year. Better corporate earnings over the last one year has boosted job prospects in the country as companies are looking to expand operations after going slow on recruitment with bare minimum increments till last year.

Companies across sectors are looking to hire and they would surely use PPO as a medium to lap up good talent from across IIMs as there is a sense of familiarity on both sides, said a senior human resource executive who recently moved from a pharma company to one of the country’s biggest conglomerates. “The war for talent is definitely going to be more intensive this year,” he said requesting anonymity.

Picture this: IIM Calcutta has reported 37 PPOs, more than twice compared to 15 such job offers received by its students in the same period last year. This means that nearly 10% of the batch already have a job offer, a mark they could achieve only around October last year.

“Last year nobody was sure how placements were going to shape up since companies came out with fewer PPOs. This year, early offers have given us much more confidence and placement prospects for our batch are already looking brighter,” said Paromita Chakravarty, a student from IIM-C, who recently received an offer from an FMCG giant.

This year, PPOs at IIM-C include those from consulting firms McKinsey & Co, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Co and AT Kearney besides international banks such as UBS, Nomura and Morgan Stanley. Majority of the offers from these banks are for international positions like Singapore, London and New York. Apart from MNCs, Tata Administrative Services and Hindustan Unilever have also offered jobs to students at IIM-C. About 18 students are also going through pre-placement interviews at the campus, most of which are likely to get converted into PPOs in the coming days.

IIM Lucknow has reported 22 PPOs so far, from recruiters such as McKinsey & Co, BCG, Hindustan Unilever, Aditya Birla Group, Essar Group and L&T. Although, a number of companies have give PPOs already, the real rush of PPOs would be felt only by October, said IIM-L recruitment coordinator Rahul Tom Joseph.

Both IIM-A and IIM-B did not disclose the numbers but said that PPOs have primarily come from consulting firms and a few investment banks.

At IIM-B, PPOs started coming from July and the institute says the numbers are at par with last year. “The trend looks healthy,” says IIM-B placement head Sapna Agarwal. “If we go by the sentiments during final placements for students passing out early this year and the PPOs being offered now, the scenario looks quite bright. But we need to be cautious and invite more companies, since our batch size is larger this year,” she added.

IIM Kozhikode has received one PPO while 15 of its students are in the process of pre placement interviews by companies including Tata Motors, HSBC, Deloitte, Escorts, Citibank and J P Morgan.

IIM-C placement chairman Prof Amit Dhiman is hopeful that the institute would attract more PPOs than last year. “PPOs are usually seen as a reflection of how the coming placement season is going to be. So far, placements 2011 look more promising than 2010,” he said.

Those involved with placement coordination cells of the IIMs say while PPOs this year has been much better, they are yet to see the good old days of 2006 and 2007. The economic slowdown in 2008, however, made companies cautious, a trend that changed only marginally last year.

Don't Run. Just Sit.

NYC airport trades fast food for sit-down service - Yahoo! Finance: "Forget about greasy french fries, soggy pizza or that sandwich that's been sitting out for hours. Filet mignon, crispy duck confit and crab cakes are taking off at the airport.

Delta Air Lines is putting 13 new restaurants, bars and cafes in its LaGuardia Airport terminal by next summer, opening the first four Saturday morning.

With travelers waiting longer because of more extensive security checks and flight delays, airports across the country are swapping out fast-food joints for sit-down restaurants. It's part of a trend of airlines serving their customers before they board their flights, said air industry expert Terry Trippler, owner of rulestoknow.com, a website dedicated to airline rules."

I like long walks...

especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

from http://www.jokesnjokes.net/funny.jokes.amusing.humor.laughs/Sports/jogging001.htm

What are 20-somethings running on?

What Is It About 20-Somethings? - NYTimes.com: "...The 20s are a black box, and there is a lot of churning in there. One-third of people in their 20s move to a new residence every year. Forty percent move back home with their parents at least once. They go through an average of seven jobs in their 20s, more job changes than in any other stretch. Two-thirds spend at least some time living with a romantic partner without being married. And marriage occurs later than ever. The median age at first marriage in the early 1970s, when the baby boomers were young, was 21 for women and 23 for men; by 2009 it had climbed to 26 for women and 28 for men, five years in a little more than a generation.

We’re in the thick of what one sociologist calls “the changing timetable for adulthood.” Sociologists traditionally define the “transition to adulthood” as marked by five milestones: completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child...."

Jackson Browne: running on full at Britt | MailTribune.com

Jackson Browne: running on full at Britt | MailTribune.com: "Jackson Browne opened his first Britt show in over a decade with Warren Zevon and Carl Hiaasen's arch 'Seminole Bingo,' of all things, a 1995 number that could be ripped from today's headlines. That was after Browne remarked on the absence of chainsaws, a reference to the timber industry supporters that greeted him and Bonnie Raitt by revving the snarling tools of the trade throughout the environmental benefit the two singers put on that night.

Browne, still trim and boyish at 61, was joined at the top of the show by old pal and guitarist (and all things stringed) extraordinaire David Lindley, for a warm, acoustic set. The two men have collaborated for almost four decades. Lindley played on 1973's 'For Everyman' and other Browne classics including 'Late For The Sky' and 'The Pretender.' Browne, in turn, produced Lindley's best-known album, 1983's 'El Rayo-X.' They show little or no signs of slowing down."

1981 Dream Mile Oslo - Ovett, Cram, Walker & Byers

A great video on Youtube...

Getting bugged

by mosquitoes running around everywhere- and getting bitten while running takes the fun out of a tiresome activity.

A Summer

That Ran Away...

The mystery behind the East African runners

BBC Sport - East African runners: what makes them so dominant?: "Put 'East African running' into a search engine and you'll get thousands of results exploring the question of what makes these long distance runners so good.
Everyone is searching for the secret explanation so what does the research evidence point to? There is not one simple answer but here are my thoughts.
In athletics terms many people associate East Africa with Kenyan and Ethiopian distance running. Intriguingly, the majority of these runners come from three mountainous districts beside the Rift Valley: Nandi in Kenya, the most successful district, and Arsi and Shewa in Ethiopia.
Some people say that since these runners and their forebears live and train at altitude, they're bound to be good. 'Altitude natives', through long-term exposure combined with endurance training, have increased red blood cells which is one neat explanation of their excellence in endurance events..."

Potential NYM winner

BBC Sport - Athletics - Britain's Mara Yamauchi hoping to win New York Marathon: "Britain's Mara Yamauchi is hoping for a double success in New York when she takes part in the city's marathon.
The Japan-based 36-year-old won the New York City Half Marathon in a course record time in March and will make her debut in the full event in November.
She chose not to compete at the recent European Athletics Championships in Barcelona in favour of taking part in a race in the autumn.
'New York is an iconic race. I will give it everything,' said Yamauchi.
'I can't wait to return to New York and race against the best marathon runners in the world."

Cathy to be run out, after 34 years

`Cathy' comic strip ending after 34 years - Yahoo! Finance: "The comic strip 'Cathy,' which has chronicled the life, frustrations and swimsuit season meltdowns of its namesake for more than 30 years, is coming to an end.

Cathy Guisewite, the strip's creator, said Wednesday that deciding to end the comic strip was 'excruciating.' The comic has won several awards, including a 1992 National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in 1987, and at its height appeared in 1,400 papers.

'It's just been really unbelievably agonizing to make the decision,' Guisewite said in a telephone interview from her home in the Los Angeles area. 'The strip has not only been the most astonishing form of therapy for 34 years, but doing a daily comic strip for the newspaper set a certain rhythm for my life.'

The final 'Cathy' strip, will run in newspapers on Sunday, Oct. 3."

What a Bull...

Jordan to introduce Pippen at the Hall of Fame ceremonies...Brings back memories of Evanston and the glory years of the Bulls...

Fifteen year gap doesn't make a scratch

Reuniting with a childhood friend after a gap of fifteen years brings back many memories. The warmth and affection that was created in the early years last many lifetimes.

Why Run?

"...It helps me live better." George McGough

A good, long run is like creating great music- food for the soul. Unfortunately, unlike a great music score, a good run cannot be "stored" and reproduced.

Marty and Arboretum

As we drove to the Morton Arboretum the other day I was reminded of Marty, a colleague in the nineties. He was a good distance runner and we ran together quite often. Sadly he died of a heart attack while scuba diving.

Parc du Mont-Royal‎

A great place to run or walk in Montreal. The only downside is the odious "French-only" culture.

Visit to Shenandoah Valley

in the late eighties was a fabulous experience. Driving up the mountains and taking the hairpin bends!

Fictional Run

Reading the Stieg Larsson book "The Girl...Hornet's Nest" in one sitting consumed all the time between 9PM and 6AM. While the story is quite interesting, the endurance test is quite as challenging as running a race in humid conditions.

RUnning in LA

was quite an experience. A friend's wedding in Malibu presented a great opportunity to run in LA.

Pitt is not the Pits

Running in Pittsburg through CMU and other nearby places is quite enjoyable and interesting.

On the run...

Reading the book " The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories From the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands" by Margaret Regan reminds one of the troubling, touching movie 'El Norte" by Gregory Nava. It is clearly one of the best movies of the eighties, along with other great ones like Running on Empty, Local Hero, and Stand by Me.