http://www.marathonme.com My name is Frank Livaudais and I like running Marathons. 69 marathons, 7 ultra-marathons, 42 states, 4 countries and counting...You too can run a marathon Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:02:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I now have super powers previously only dreamed of. I am capable of seeing an alarm clock in the middle of the night, I can wake up and let the dogs outside without bumping into walls, I can see the scores at the football games on the opposite side ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/09/01/laser-power/ Tomorrow at about 9am I will go under the knife? in front of the laser. While I am slightly nervous right now, tomorrow I should be relaxed: I will administer 5 - 10mg of Valium in pill form 20 minutes prior to your procedure. The Valium will help you relax ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/26/cue-the-lasers/ Yesterday I posted about Dara Torres's crazy stretching routine that enables her to kiss ass even in her forties. Then our good friend Bethany responded with the following: Did you hear that story about how much it costs per day to keep her in shape like that? If you didn’t, trust ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/26/six-figures-to-kick-ass/ I found a cool tool to help you create maps, which is very useful for tracking which states you've run in a visual way. This website allows you to enter six different groupings of states and pick the color and it will shade them in and create an image ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/25/cool-map-generator/ As I get older and it takes longer to recover, I know that I should be stretching more. But I just can't stand it. Intellectually I know my recovery would most likely improve as would my times, but I hate it. The above video shows what Dara ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/25/magic-stretching-for-dara-torres/ I normally don't drink much caffeine, but after returning from Alaska on Wednesday morning I had to "kick it up a notch". We left Anchorage at 9pm (midnight Texas time), and then landed around 6:30am. I never can sleep on airplanes no matter what I try (Tylenol PM, ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/22/caffeine/ Today was the Humpy's Great Alaska Alehouse Marathon in Anchorage Alaska. The weather was absolutely perfect. It stayed in the 50s for the whole race, the humidity was low and it never rained. The race started at 9am, which was noon in Texas, so it felt like a really late start ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/17/humpys-marathon-08172008/ Tomorrow will be state #43 in the quest for 50. Today was a really lazy day, recovering from our harrowing experience on the glacier yesterday (more on that later). We finally managed to leave the hotel and head out to packet pickup and then we headed to lunch ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/16/humpys-is-tomorrow/ We arrived in Anchorage Alaska last night after a long day of traveling. We left the house about 11am Austin time and headed to the airport. After a quick flight to DFW we stopped at Bennigans for some crappy bar food and then boarded the flight to Alaska. ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/15/humpys-big-wild-marathon/ Like Francis from Stripes, I've put the Wii Fit on my list. We've been battling over the last few days, which lead to this following quote: "Anti-WiiFit-Ite" This was the comment left by our good friend Bethany on my last post. So the question is, am I a hater? ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/12/anti-wiifit-ite/ Well maybe not. The Carrolton Marathon posted some videos of the race recently, and you can see the winner, Chuck Engle, above. I really think he needs to lay off the cheeseburgers and ice cream. It's really sad, he could drop dead at anytime now being that ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/08/hey-chuck-engle-the-wii-fit-probably-thinks-youre-fat-too/ Shelley has been wanting a Wii Fit for a while after getting rave reviews from several of our friends.  They seem to be always sold out, but Rex put me on the trail of Game Stop and said to call them every day at 11 and find out if they ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/07/im-not-wii-fit/ Elite racing is having a special registration discount today only for next summer's Rock and Roll Seattle Marathon. You can sign up today for 1/2 off. I look forward to running a summer marathon in Seattle. The weather will be much better than in Texas. Here's to a great discount! http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/05/rock-and-roll-seattle-marathon/ You can see that the city of Carrolton rolled out the welcome mat for me, placing a sign just for me on the way to the race. Scott and I had picked up our packets the night before and had decided not to drive the course. I was ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/04/carrolton-michigan-marathon/ The Sunstroke Summer Stampede got some cool coverage from the Daily Texan this morning. The Daily Texan is the student newspaper for the University of Texas at Austin. I've included the article contents below, so that when they move the article you can still read about it. ;) Racing away summer ... http://www.marathonme.com/index.php/2008/08/04/summer-stampede-in-the-daily-texan/