Guster Loves the Planet (and brownies)...

Guster is among my favorite bands. So I was pretty excited to hear they (finally) had finished their new album (check out Easy Wonderful here. Thanks to WSJ for streaming the album). Guster has also been supporting Reverb, an organization that tries to keep concerts as green as possible, and raise environmental awareness among fans (like selling carbon offsets for travel to the show). One of the more visible changes is to use those metal, re-usable water bottles.

So, what's the whole point of this? excellent question.

Well, I pre-ordered the new CD, and it arrived like this:

It's nice to see that they're extending their environmentalism to shipping packaging.

It's also nice to see that they like brownies.

sometimes you have just have to try something stupid. something so ridiculous, that most people wouldn't believe it's possible.

no, not this. i'll leave that to someone else. no, instead, i chose this. why? probably because i'm an idiot. why not try something that requires you to sign a waiver that mentions the possibility of death 4 times? and, no - i did not opt for the ever-popular relay (seriously, try to find 4 other tortured souls such as myself?), or the measly half-marathon. marathon - why bother? let's make it an ultra-marathon.

ultra, huh? so, have you ever run further than one marathon before. oh, no - of course not, but i have run a marathon. and, they do have a 50 K(ilometer) race. that's only 5 miles further than the marathon. seems like a reasonable way to wade out into the world of ultrarunning.

f**k that. grit your teeth and give it hell. i signed up for the 50 mile race. that's nearly twice the distance i've ever run before. not only that, but it's more than i run most weeks.

but here's the messed up part:

i'm gonna do it again. just wait and see.