http://completerunning.com/running-blog-mark/index.php/archives/2004/11/26/happy-thanksgiving-america/ Welcome to the home of Mark aka The Running Blogfather - a 40 year-old dad, husband and marathon runner who's beaten injury and is on the comeback trail! Mon, 21 May 2012 20:17:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://completerunning.com/running-blog-mark/index.php/archives/2004/11/26/happy-thanksgiving-america/comment-page-1/#comment-1903 Deene Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:45:54 +0000 http://www.completerunning.com/running-blog-mark/index.php/archives/2004/11/26/happy-thanksgiving-america/#comment-1903 Exactly what Jon said. Day after thanksgiving you go stand in line at 5:30 am for the stores to open. Then once inside with your heart racing you run around tossing anything and everything into your shopping cart knocking senior citizens and kids out of your way only to stand in another line at checkout while the clerk makes icky faces at you. Then you go home and finish off the leftover turkey. Exactly what Jon said. Day after thanksgiving you go stand in line at 5:30 am for the stores to open. Then once inside with your heart racing you run around tossing anything and everything into your shopping cart knocking senior citizens and kids out of your way only to stand in another line at checkout while the clerk makes icky faces at you. Then you go home and finish off the leftover turkey.

]]> http://completerunning.com/running-blog-mark/index.php/archives/2004/11/26/happy-thanksgiving-america/comment-page-1/#comment-1898 susan Fri, 26 Nov 2004 20:07:06 +0000 http://www.completerunning.com/running-blog-mark/index.php/archives/2004/11/26/happy-thanksgiving-america/#comment-1898 Ha, yes, that's right Mark (and Jon). A great excuse to eat way more than we should, too. I'm off for my second feast today... Ha, yes, that’s right Mark (and Jon). A great excuse to eat way more than we should, too. I’m off for my second feast today…

]]> http://completerunning.com/running-blog-mark/index.php/archives/2004/11/26/happy-thanksgiving-america/comment-page-1/#comment-1897 Jon in Michigan Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:03:37 +0000 http://www.completerunning.com/running-blog-mark/index.php/archives/2004/11/26/happy-thanksgiving-america/#comment-1897 Yes, Thanksgiving actually is a holiday invented by Abraham Lincoln. It marks the midpoint of the Christmas shopping season, which officially starts the day after Halloween. Thanksgiving day is celebrated with a giant feast, to prepare one's body and soul for the final half of the season. Today (the day after Thanksgiving) with our reserves of energy at their maximum, it is traditional to go to as many stores as possible and become so irritable with the crowds that you end up hating Christmas more than the Grinch does. Yes, Thanksgiving actually is a holiday invented by Abraham Lincoln. It marks the midpoint of the Christmas shopping season, which officially starts the day after Halloween. Thanksgiving day is celebrated with a giant feast, to prepare one’s body and soul for the final half of the season. Today (the day after Thanksgiving) with our reserves of energy at their maximum, it is traditional to go to as many stores as possible and become so irritable with the crowds that you end up hating Christmas more than the Grinch does.

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