This is Aimee Mullins, who has done everything from working at the Pentagon while studying at Georgetown to modeling in London to working as an actor in film. I guess we’re calling them actors now. But anyway, you’re going to feel like an even lazier bastard when I tell you that Aimee has done all of these things with prosthetic legs.
Mullins was born with missing fibulae and had to endure double amputation just below the knee when she was just a year old. But that never stopped her from running track at Georgetown. Or from being a smoking hot piece of tail. And her carbon fiber legs that she uses to run? They cost over $15,000 a pop. That’s 15 large for each leg. That’s a couple of Toyotas. And you thought that necklace you were buying for your girlfriend for Christmas was pricey. Panda.
Chicago had its first-ever half marathon, and American Kara Goucher, who nearly won the women’s half of the Boston Marathon in April, won the event, finishing at 1:08:05. No, she won the whole event, beating the fastest male there by 20 seconds.
“I felt I could run in the 67-68 minute range,” said Goucher, who remains undefeated over the half marathon distance. “The race was great, better than my preparations for Boston. It was awesome to be the first finisher and I wanted to enjoy the crowd. I really liked how the course changed up, there was never a stretch where it was dull, and you are going through the city, going over bridges and along the water. I really liked the course.” via, via.
STEROIDS! STEROIDS! I mean, look at her; she’s ripped! No, seriously, this will be the beginning of the end of man’s domination of the sports world. It’s bad enough that we can’t bear children or mouth off in public without getting punched in the face. Now we’ll have to settle for being second-tier athletes. This must be how Reggie Miller feels every day…imgs.
Here’s a video of a gentleman wearing some sort of Arab regalia popping his automated workout cherry on the treadmill. I should point out that I have no idea if this treadmill is facing Mecca, or he holds any of the disdain for America that I would have implied in the title of this post. All I know is that dude just starts screaming like a little girl and has no idea how to make it stop. Damn whoever that was that turned the machine off for him. You destroyed an internet legend in the making, and if that doesn’t piss off Allah, I can’t imagine what would. Pfft, you and your god.
I believe it was the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu that coined the expression, “From doing one thing well, do many things well.” What he meant was that one should take the discipline, passion and craftsmanship one utilizes in his primary trade and apply that to other areas of one’s life. I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean painting art, jogging on a treadmill, and playing ping-pong all at the same time. Or maybe he did. Those Chinese are a wacky bunch.
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Yesterday, the Tough Guy Challenge gave us such visual delights as people exhaling freezing muddy water, people running through fire, and (of course) a stud in the Borat monokini.
As a follow-up, here’s a video report on the event (via The Sporting Blog) that makes me long for the days when I was fit enough — and perversely masochistic enough — to run 8 miles cross-country before going through a hellish obstacle course. Now I’m too old and weak and sane to do something like this. Now if I want to get some dangerous kicks, it’s back to the ol’ autoerotic asphyxiation. **tightens belt around neck**
The Tough Guy Competition took place in England yesterday, and thousands of awesomely masochistic people competed in the 8-mile endurance course that included obstacles with barbed wire, fire, mud, and icy water.
A broken neck, a dozen broken or dislocated bones and 600 people struck down with hypothermia – including the winner – all meant it was business as usual in what’s been dubbed the world’s toughest endurance battle.
Whoops, there goes my imminent-peril boner again. Organizer Billy Wilson added:
“It was non-stop trips, back and forth to the hospital. There were a lot of injuries, but there were no deaths this year. Overall, it’s been quite successful.”
I love any event where success is determined by the fact that nobody died. Although I’d like it even more if success was determined by how many people died.
Photos from this awesome Boston.com gallery.
