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Join us tonight for live coverage (blog/chat) of the 2009 NBA Draft that will start at 8pm EDT. You will be able to post your thoughts, predictions, questions, and thoughts on the draft as they happen.
It is never easy running a full 26.2 mile marathon. Every helpful hint, tip, and trick you can pick up from experienced marathoners can give you more an advantage on race day. I don’t consider myself an expert, but I have run five marathons and learned a lot over the past five years of marathon running. So I decided to compile a short list of things I have found helpful for running a marathon.
Below are 10 Really Good Marathon Tips that will help you in running your first marathon or running one even better than you have before.
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Have your own marathon tips and advice I didn’t cover? Then leave a comment below with your own helpful marathon tips and advice.
- Joshua Holmes
Purchase Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS with Heart Rate Monitor
Purchase Spira Running Shoes
Busy and calm day of traveling yesterday, but back to work today! It looks like it could be a very interesting and busy week in blog-land. I will try to update with photos from here when I can!!
Here is the video from Bumpshack’s exclusive interview with interior designer/TV host Jennifer Farrell, on the eve of her second appearance on The View. We were fortunate to sit down with Jennifer at her beautiful Hollywood home this week.
We asked Jennifer about a wide range of topics ranging from designing a small room, taking care of one’s self, her future endeavors, and small steps in how to be eco-friendly with your home.
Here are a few of the things Jennifer had to say in our interview:
“There is a lot you can do to help improve the planet. I am very frustrated in this country that not every city in America has recycling.”
“Think about what you can take out of your trash. We put a lot of things into the garbage that don’t need to go into the garbage. For example instead of throwing away your water bottle, why don’t you refill it with water from your fridge. I use the same water bottle for about a year at a time.”
“The biggest thing is how you treat your body.”
Related: Who Exactly is Jennifer Farrell?
Drop us a comment below with what you are doing to be eco-friendly or with your home design tip for our readers.
Exclusive Photos of Jennifer Farrell on The View
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Designer and TV host Jennifer Farrell let us tag along with her this week for her second appearance, in as many weeks, on The View. We were able to take several behind-the-scenes photos of Jennifer (see below) before and after the taping. The show, based in New York, filmed three days this week in Los Angeles.
Other stars to appear on The View this day were Sally Field (photos), Calista Flockhart (photos), Spencer Pratt (photos), and Heidi Montag (photos).
Jennifer also took time to sit down with us for an exclusive Bumpshack interview where she discussed a wide range of issues from going green to her upcoming projects (watch video interview).
Bumpshack’s Bio of Jennifer Farrell
The four screenshots below are from Jennifer’s March 6, 2009, appearance on The View.
More Behind-the-Scene Photos of Jennifer on The View
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Brothers & Sisters stars Sally Field and Calista Flockhart stopped by The View on Tuesday, in Los Angeles, for a chat with the women. Sally looked amazing as always. Can you believe she is 62-years old? We were lucky enough to have a front row seat for these great photos. The photos might not do her justice, but Calista is the skinniest woman we have seen this side of the ocean.
The show airs this Friday on ABC and also stars Jennifer Farrell, Spencer Pratt, and Heidi Montag.
Exclusive: Photos of Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag on The View
More Photos of Sally and Calista on The View
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The View is filming in Los Angeles this week and we were right there, in the middle of the madness. We got these exclusive photos from the first row of Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag who were on the taping yesterday (show airs March 13, 2009). The Bump Wife sent me the photos as the show was being recorded on Tuesday.
She emailed me one of Spencer during the middle of the taping with the subject line: ‘Tool’. She had no clue who Spencer was before seeing him there, so I found her instant analysis of him extremely funny, since that is the public’s prevailing view about him.
Other celebs on Friday’s episode will include Sally Field, Calista Flockhart, and Jennifer Farrell.
More Photos of Speidi from The View
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After much resistance I have fallen to temptation and am now on Twitter and addicted. You can add me and get live feeds on Bumpshack stories, as well as my ramblings, quick opinions, and links to other sites that I find amusing or interesting.
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If you don’t Twitter then stay away!! You will become an addict like me and millions of others. It is quickly becoming the #1 social networking tool and has lapped MySpace and is about even with Facebook and will pass Facebook in just a couple of months.
If you are new to Twitter then you will want to try out the TweetDeck that makes it really easy to sort and keep track of all of your Tweets.










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I wanted to wish everyone and their families a Happy Thanksgiving!
I wanted to offer a very special and fattening Turkey Day to Eric, Kirk, Luke, Trevor, Travis, and Watson!
Here is a look at ‘The 10 Sexiest Vampires of All-Time’. The list ranges from TV vampires like Eric Northman (True Blood) and Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) to the dynamic duo of Louis de Pointe du Lac (Brad Pitt) and Lestat de Lioncourt (Tom Cruise) from Interview with the Vampire.

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Just a few quick words from a Holiday Inn Express in Dallas, Texas for the night.
A long day of travel but rather relaxing and fun as well. After running 26.2 miles almost anything is fun including dealing with airlines in the U.S.
Overall I feel pretty good today. I realized this afternoon that my right ankle is sprained pretty good. I think that happened on about mile 16-17. My knees feel a lot better than they did last night or the last half of the marathon. They are still weak but better. The only other injury update is just general muscle fatigue and soreness mostly in the lower legs and shoulder/back of the neck region.
It looks like I will only lose, at most, 1-2 toenails this time. I lost all 10 toenails after the first marathon I ran back in 2004. I lost 2-3 from the second marathon. So what can I say? I am improving!
When I get back to the office, probably Wednesday morning, I am going to try to write a bit about the marathon and post some pre-race and post-race photos hopefully.
Thanks to everyone who has sent me kind and thoughtful emails or Facebook messages.
Philippians 4:11-13
PS: Has anyone else come across the cool College Football Pop Tarts? Well they got me. I didn’t even want Pop Tarts but I was at the store and saw that they had College Football logos on them and I had to get them. So far I have eaten LSU, Georgia, Texas Tech and Texas.
Probably the hardest thing I have done in my life. I feel pretty good at the moment though.
My slowest time ever but by far most rewarding and challenging marathon.
More details later.
Time to find a shower!
Those of you that know me well know that I truly hate cold weather. So naturally a cold spell hit here in northern California this weekend just in time for my marathon tomorrow. As you can see above it’s going to be a cold one. I have several layers I hope to shed throughout the race as it warms up.
Upon survival I will be back here in the hotel room after the race to update everyone if I am alive, frostbitten, and my time in the event I finish.
Previous Times:
June 2004 - San Diego - 3:39
December 2005 - Tucson - 3:22
My only goal here in a few hours is to finish the race. I don’t see myself beating my Tucson time. Although I will be running faster than normal just to get out of the cold. Kind of the same way I run when rapid dogs are after me.
I want to thank everyone who commented with well wishes on the post I did on Thursday.
UPDATE: When you complain about the cold weather you can always expect the fire alarm at your hotel to go off at 3am and send you outside into the cold to stand half naked for 30 minutes with your family. NO JOKE! This is for sure going to be a fun day!
Hey Folks,
I will be traveling and away from the computer most of today. I am heading to the cold mountains of Northern California for my third marathon. My goal this time is simply survival. I set my personal record (PR) at my last marathon which took place in Tucson, Arizona. I finished Tucson in 3 hours - 22 minutes. The first marathon I ran was in San Diego and had nearly 18,000 participants. My time there was 3 hours - 39 minutes. I truly don’t expect to PR this race at all.
Many people often ask me how far a marathon is when the topic is at hand. There are several different legnths but the standard distance, and the one I always run, is 26.2 miles. There are half marathons (13.1 miles - tricky math) and super marathons that can extend all the way up to 100 miles. Those are rare and the people who attempt them are half robot.
I do plan to blog as much as I can for the next few days before the race on Sunday, as I will have a good bit of down time and resting before hand. But I wanted to be sure to let you know that I have hired a really talented blogger to help out at the Shack while I am gone and from time to time. Her name is Rita Pereira and you will really love her work. She is extremely talented, snarky, and foreign (don’t worry she is not French).
If all goes well with Senorita Pereira I might look into hiring some additional writers here at BS as we look to continue to grow. If anyone is interested then feel free to email me at Bumpshack@gmail.com. If you want to include a resume or writing samples then please do.
We have had amazing growth here at Bumpshack over the past four years. We hit 20 million hits earlier this year and expect to have that many in 2009 alone. BS has been featured on several news outlets including MSNBC, Fox News and tabloids throughout the world. BS covered the first Presidential encounter back in August between Barack Obama and John McCain. I am currently working on several projects and with a handful of celebrities, behind the scenes, on some upcoming projects to be announced later this year.
I appreciate your dedicated support to BS and passing the word to your family, friends and co-workers over the past four years. I am always open to new ideas and how to keep the site fresh and ever evolving. If you have any ideas you want to share, then please send them to me at the email address I mentioned two paragraphs ago. Also, don’t hesitate to let me know what you think about the job Rita does on Bump as she helps out from time-to-time.
Thanks,
Joshua Holmes
Bumpshack.com