Running with cold feet

Some friends are running in this event tomorrow. Sunday's predicted high at Disney? 52. I like how the race director says all discarded layers of clothing along the route will be donated to charity.
This morning, some other friends ran in a half-marathon in Columbus: Sarah, Ashley, Scott and Beth.
Really. Cold.
At 10 a.m., it was 22 degrees. (I know my peeps in Minnesota would practically wear bathing suits in that temperature.)
Anyway, bravo, y'all.

College football: Here's the underbelly of things

Here's the underbelly.

It's Alabama

As if you didn't know.
(Well, except for the non-sports fans.)
Click here to read the Sports Illustrated story.
True to form with late games, I went to bed at the half, when I sensed it was going 'Bama's way. (Truth be told, I'd have gone to bed anyway. And Michael always says: "Want me to wake you up and tell you what happened?") But kudos to Texas second-string QB Garrett Gilbert who stood in bravely for the injured Colt McCoy. He really turned things around after the half.
At the moment, our colleague Chuck Williams, who also covered the game, is on an airplane packed with other Bama fans, headed this way. All without sleep. Imagine.

Detoxing debuked

Here's a Duke University nurse weighing in, so to speak, on the recent fad of cleanses.
The body knows how to regulate itself, if we let it.

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Standing on one's feet for 43 hours

Imagine this.
After a 35-hour surgery on a Wisconsin man, Dr. Tomoaki Kato of New York went in for eight hours more (same patient).
The article raises a pertinent question: Is it worth it? (Not just the time and cost.) But will it significantly improve the patient's life and, more broadly, will it be a teaching tool for other surgeons? Time will tell.

Happy 2010

Some quotes to help us get started:

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
~P.J. O'Rourke