This race looks unlike any other I have seen. Dirty and nasty. 8 miles of challenging obstacles.

Quoted: The 'Tough Guy Challenge', in Perton, UK, is a biannual race over a course of eight miles. Its 21 obstacles include fire, tunnels, barbed wire, slides and swamps. Thousands of normal citizens compete.

I didn't see this article on nutritionism from Michael Pollan last year. I wish I had. Speaking in a no-nonsense style, he tells us just how little scientific knowledge of food that we have.

Quoted: The story of how basic questions about what to eat got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional science and journalism.

Well maybe if one of these meteorites hit a nuclear waste storage facility (or any other superfund cleanup site, or a good deal of the area in China) we'll see people ACTUALLY getting sick. Then this author will feel silly.

Quoted: On what started as a normal Saturday night one week ago, residents of a small, remote Peruvian town saw a bright light streak across the sky, heard a resounding bang and suddenly found themselves at the center of a media frenzy.

Scientists are starting to use World of Warcraft to model real world responses to pandemics. Cool!

Quoted: WarCry

A really thorough blog post on the workout regimen the folks form the the movie "300" used to get that Spartan look.

I just got invited to do the Mt. Rainier to Pacific Relay with Ken (redelk2535) and some of his friends. Looks like a bunch of fun and it's only a few weeks after I'm doing the Mountains to Sound so I should be in shape already.

I just got signed up to do this with a group of friends. I'm doing the 6-mile Sprint to glory at the end! Time to start getting fast!

A great wiki-how on acheiving six-pack abs. No real secrets but a good reminder of the work you can do to get there...

A healthy reminder that I need to start hitting the gym again, especially now that it's getting dark so early.

I have often been asked what sort of conditioning one should do for mountaineering. How much needs to be done and how can I test myself? This article is one of the best I have seen addressing those issues.

Quoted: Physical Conditioning for Mountaineering and Expeditions