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  1. For those of you who ran the Philadelphia Marathon last year, you may remember a certain
    anti-abortion protest on the course that was set up on Kelly Drive so you had to pass it twice (Mile
    15, and again at 24).

    If you're running the marathon this Sunday, be ready - looks like the same group is going to be
    back again. The group is called "The Full Quiver Mission", and they go around the country
    protesting abortion.

    fullquivermission.comfullquivermission.com

    Marathons have become their latest favorite venue; if you ran Richmond, you were subject to the same
    group and their method of protest.

    This isn't the start of a Pro-Choice/Pro-Life Debate, please! I just want any runners to know that
    these folks will be out there again with signs, bullhorns, and about 1/2 mile of very active
    protesting; It can certainly break your concentration if you're not expecting it.

    Good Luck to everyone running Sunday - I'll be there for my 7th Philadelphia, and 18th marathon -
    the weather looks great!

    Bob Mina Philadelphia, PA

  2. Quoted message said:

    Marathons have become their latest favorite venue; if you ran Richmond, you were subject to the
    same group and their method of protest.

    Thanks, Bob. Looks like they're mostly out to generate publicity for themselves with these
    ridiculous tactics. Not like they're going to convince anyone - they're chickensh*ts for staging
    something like this in front of several thousand people who aren't going to bother to slow down or
    stop to debate them. Ooooooo ... how brave. They're just trying to p&ss people off and get on the
    news. Ignore them, folks, and keep running. I'm just going to keep going and try to focus on the
    positive ... namely, cheesesteaks afterwards!

    Ciao, Michele Chelli

  3. I bet it will be mostly men in the group.

    Men who think that THEY should decide what a woman does with HER body.

    --
    Lewis.

    tinyurl.comr3r6 .........................

    *******************************

    "Bob Mina" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    For those of you who ran the Philadelphia Marathon last year, you may remember a certain
    anti-abortion protest on the course that was set up on Kelly Drive so you had to pass it twice
    (Mile 15, and again at 24).

    If you're running the marathon this Sunday, be ready - looks like the same group is going to be
    back again. The group is called "The Full Quiver Mission", and they go around the country
    protesting abortion.

    fullquivermission.comfullquivermission.com

    Marathons have become their latest favorite venue; if you ran Richmond, you were subject to the
    same group and their method of protest.

    This isn't the start of a Pro-Choice/Pro-Life Debate, please! I just want any runners to know that
    these folks will be out there again with signs, bullhorns, and about 1/2 mile of very active
    protesting; It can certainly break your concentration if you're not expecting it.

    Good Luck to everyone running Sunday - I'll be there for my 7th Philadelphia, and 18th marathon -
    the weather looks great!

    Bob Mina Philadelphia, PA

  4. We are the bosses, so why shouldn't we?

    Lewis Campbell said:

    I bet it will be mostly men in the group.

    Men who think that THEY should decide what a woman does with HER body.

  5. "Lewis Campbell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    I bet it will be mostly men in the group.

    Men who think that THEY should decide what a woman does with HER body.

    --
    Lewis.

    tinyurl.comr3r6 .........................

    Take it to another group. We don't need an abortion debate here because we've got HRM and runners
    vs. joggers.

  6. TenKMan said:


    Take it to another group. We don't need an abortion debate here because we've got HRM and runners
    vs. joggers.

    Don't forget GPS devices and oil changes. 😉

    --
    Doug Freese "Caveat Lector" [email hidden]

  7. Doug Freese said:
    TenKMan said:

    Take it to another group. We don't need an abortion debate here because we've got HRM and runners
    vs. joggers.

    Quoted message said:

    Don't forget GPS devices and oil changes. 😉

    .. and running marathons (26.2miles) on minimal training..

  8. <[email hidden]> wrote in message

    Quoted message said:
    Doug Freese said:
    TenKMan said:

    Take it to another group. We don't need an abortion debate here


    because

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    we've got HRM and runners vs. joggers.

    Quoted message said:

    Don't forget GPS devices and oil changes. 😉

    .. and running marathons (26.2miles) on minimal training..

    ... don't forget race bandits, Bush and the Atkins Diet.

    Come to think about it, I should attempt to start the most controversial thread in r.r's history:

    If Bush decided to run a marathon without paying for entry on six weeks training while eating
    nothing but pork rinds, should he be using the Galloway walk-run training method or should he go
    for broke and try running under six minute miles, (since anything slower than that is jogging,
    of course)?

    cheers,
    --
    David (in Hamilton, ON) www.allfalldown.org

  9. SwStudio said:

    If Bush decided to run a marathon without paying for entry on six weeks training while eating
    nothing but pork rinds, should he be using the Galloway walk-run training method or should he go
    for broke and try running under six minute miles, (since anything slower than that is jogging, of
    course)?

    Good, but you forgot to mention "..and is it okay to to run the race with his 4yr old grandson and
    which mp3 player should he wear for racing and should he use 220 minus his age to work out his max
    HR and Nikes must be the best shoe to run in, right?"

    I can see this list growing and growing. ;-)

    Tim

    --
    Remove the obvious to reply by email.

  10. It matters not, because without his secret service coverage, he'd be shot withing the first
    mile anyway.

    Tim Downie said:
    SwStudio said:

    If Bush decided to run a marathon without paying for entry on six weeks training while eating
    nothing but pork rinds, should he be using the Galloway walk-run training method or should he go
    for broke and try running under six minute miles, (since anything slower than that is jogging, of
    course)?

    Good, but you forgot to mention "..and is it okay to to run the race with his 4yr old grandson and
    which mp3 player should he wear for racing and should he use 220 minus his age to work out his max
    HR and Nikes must be the best shoe to run in, right?"

    I can see this list growing and growing. ;-)

    Tim

  11. SwStudio said:

    If Bush decided to run a marathon without paying for entry on six weeks training while eating
    nothing but pork rinds, should he be using the Galloway walk-run training method or should he go
    for broke and try running under six minute miles, (since anything slower than that is jogging, of
    course)?

    If he follows his normal thoughless actions he would only know how to go balls out and then try to
    fiqure out what to do about half way. He never has been able to see beyond the nose on his face. Any
    doubts, look at Iraq - we are in deep [censored]!!!!

    Bush == Ready! Fire! Aim!

    --
    Doug Freese "Caveat Lector" [email hidden]

  12. In article <[email hidden]>, timdownie2003 @obvious.yahoo.co.uk says...

    Quoted message said:

    I can see this list growing and growing. ;-)

    Nobody mentioned whether running backwards on a treadmill accurately simulates downhill running
    outdoors in a tailwind, either.

    -Fountainhead

  13. "Doug Freese" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    If he follows his normal thoughless actions he would only know how to go balls out and then try to
    fiqure out what to do about half way.

    Of course Al Gore's/Clinton's method would be better. They would mandate that running a marathon
    would be dangerous and legislate control over it. Then when they would run the marathon it would be
    the start slow, slow down in the middle, and walk to the finish method.

    He never has been able to see beyond the nose on his face. Any

    Quoted message said:

    doubts, look at Iraq - we are in deep [censored]!!!!

    Bush == Ready! Fire! Aim!

    You almost say that as if it were a bad thing!!!

    Quoted message said:


    --
    Doug Freese "Caveat Lector" [email hidden]

  14. TenKMan said:


    "Doug Freese" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]... Of course Al Gore's/Clinton's method would be
    better. They would mandate that running a marathon would be dangerous and legislate control over
    it. Then when they would run the marathon it would be the start slow, slow down in the middle, and
    walk to the finish method.

    What kind of BS is this? The democrats ran a successful government by leaving the average person
    alone. What you are referring too is giving corporate america the free reign the money-grubbing
    [censored] want, just like the chimp is doing now. Remember the record high gas prices a recently?
    Unchallenged by the government, we only heard promises of "we are investigating" and that was the
    end of it. Yeah, just stay out of everything is the answer. Democrats are now, and have always been
    for the people, republicans are for themselves and lining their pockets and their buddys. Did
    Clinton encourage the idiots at the post office to spy on their fellow americans? The average postal
    worker (mine at least) is to stupid that after delivering mail to the box for 6 years says he can't
    put a check in it because my name wasn't on it, so I conveniently pointed to the 4" letters with my
    name emblazened on the MB. And the chimp wants lobotomized vegetables like these to spy on us? Oh
    BTW, Got a job? No. WMD? No Saddam? No. Osama? No. thousands dead for nothing, and we went from
    being the worlds leader, to be the wart on the ass of humanity. Yeah, good job, keep it up morons...

    Quoted message said:

    You almost say that as if it were a bad thing!!!

    If it was your child dead in Iraq for absolutely no reason but to appease the ego of a few powerful,
    vengeful, ignoramuses, I think you'd feel differently. They didn't die for freedom, they died for
    cheap gas prices that never happened.

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