A Passion for Running

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!

rumours of my passing have been greatly exaggerated

passion for running category: running on Monday, July 31 2006

Hey folks! I am still around and I am planning on posting my “get fit” plan shortly.

Where’ve I been? I’ve been working on something really exciting. Something I can’t share quite yet but, suffice to say, it’s been keeping me really busy.

In other news, I am the proud owner of my third iMac. iMac #1 was an original bondi blue beauty like this one:

iMac #2 got rave reviews (even got a five star rating from PC World Magazine) and we loved it.

iMac #3 is the newer model of the one you see above. It’s Intel powered, has a built in photo/video camera, a remote control for controlling music, video and photo applications, and is more powerful than the last one - even though I found that one to be perfect in the horsepower department.

iMac #2 is still working fine and dandy so why did we buy another one? Well, in a word, because I was having a hard time sharing her and the daugher and wife needed something too. Funny huh? Most families fight over the TV. We battle over the computer.

RunnerSusan calls hers “Precious” and I think that’s quite suitable for me too since I’m very Gollum-like around it. Hey, we have the same hair!


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Comment by Susan

Monday July 31, 2006 @

Yeah. Now our computers can be love slave companions too! Isnt’ that special.

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Comment by Linda

Monday July 31, 2006 @

C’mon at least give us some hints!

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Comment by Jon in Michigan

Monday July 31, 2006 @

And Gollum wears a skirt too! :D

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Comment by Susan

Monday July 31, 2006 @

Oh, and btw - having 3 macs is totally unfair!

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Comment by Chris Brogan...

Tuesday August 01, 2006 @

Don’t fib them. You’re just slacking off and being a silly sandwich. Tell them about all those late nights eating Oreos and talking about the glory days.

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Comment by jeanne

Tuesday August 01, 2006 @

is that the after photo of you? i think you took the dieting too far. just sayin…

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Comment by beverly

Tuesday August 01, 2006 @

Thanks to Jeanne for making me spit water on my monitor … hilarious!

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Comment by Juls

Tuesday August 01, 2006 @

I overheard my husband say that he and I hardly need to talk anymore now that I have my blog and the running blog friends. I like the idea of naming the computer. We are a 1 TV house in a neighborhood where that is VERY odd, but we have 2 desktop computers and 2 taptops.

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Comment by Jack

Thursday August 03, 2006 @

Jeanne’s left had me rollin’ on the floor…talk about making my day. You realize, of course, that everytime we will think of you now the Gollum-picture will pop into our heads - the mark-in-running-skirt is history.

My wife is a MAC freak and has been looking (drooling) over the new iMac - you’ll have to post a product review after you used your new baby for awhile.

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Comment by Dawn - Pink Chick

Saturday August 05, 2006 @

Oh man….sorry to “up” you Mark but our house has way to many computers and tvs. Remember there is just me and hubby. We have 3 computers, a scanner, a color printer and a new b/w laser printer, 2 web cams. All the PCs have woofers/speakers and hubby has a steering wheel for his games. That’s just the computing gear.

We also have 2 mp3 players, 2 digital cameras, 3 vcrs, 3 tvs, 2 dvd players and two stereos.

And of course I can’t resist yet another chance to rub in the bit that we have a hot tub…lol. :-)

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Comment by Yvonne

Saturday August 05, 2006 @

hey, now you’re making me want one…

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Comment by neese

Saturday August 05, 2006 @

ah a Mac person! we have 4… and my latest ibook is so used the letters are rubbing off, “A” is completely gone. (good thing i can type without looking). congrats on the new addition!

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Comment by brit

Thursday August 24, 2006 @

uh pretty

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