tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10086418.post9176687153335669739..comments2023-10-17T00:47:01.880-07:00Comments on the Merrill Life: Avoiding the HypeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10086418.post-46160162635638535692006-10-16T16:08:00.000-07:002006-10-16T16:08:00.000-07:00When discussing IM CDA filling up what I meant to ...When discussing IM CDA filling up what I meant to say was that IM CDA 2006 filled up in about a month and IM CDA 2007 filled up in approximately two weeks.<br /><br />So if one is looking for an IM that can be entered in a bit more leisurely manner, he/she would do well to consider CDA.Spokane Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14322733412232169837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10086418.post-22973424795891656072006-10-16T16:01:00.000-07:002006-10-16T16:01:00.000-07:00While I appreciate your thoughts, I think many of ...While I appreciate your thoughts, I think many of us continue to train for, or hope to compete in an IM someday for the pure goal of wanting to excel and achieve. We do have a handle on personal stuff and use the IM as a means to accomplish something that we consider to be a bit bigger than life, and perhaps just beyond the norm of our meager human capabilities (much like many do in the marathon. <br /><br />I believe that most of us are not particularly interested in the flavor of the month or what is hip - perhaps you, with your location in the Bay area which to some is the center of hipness, USA are more in tune to this issue than those of us in the hinterlands.<br /><br />I also recall when running became the end all and be all and the over-used, over-analyzed in-subject back in the late 70s. I suspect that IM, if it truly falls in that category today, will, at some point, move a bit towards the back burners of party conversation.<br /><br />Meanwhile, I believe that blogs offer many the chance to write and expound and use our brain power to construct solid, interesting, entertaining lines of thoughts. And when we stop doing that, the readers will vote with their feet and go elsewhere.<br /><br />P.S. Actually the IM CDA takes between two weeks and a month to fill up. Last year was closer to the later, and this year was closer to the former.Spokane Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14322733412232169837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10086418.post-322430151730369332006-10-16T12:34:00.000-07:002006-10-16T12:34:00.000-07:00you pretty much nailed ityou pretty much nailed itSpandex Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16565114339703433136noreply@blogger.com