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Running Raw: Vegan athletes tests limits of endurance
Tim VanOrden drives for the finish line.
Runners/endurance athletes are known for being a bit crazy, but Tim VanOrden goes way above and beyond the norm, which is why I decided to profile him for the Bennington Banner in April 2008.
I went on an eight mile run with VanOrden on the vast trails behind his parents’ Bennington home, where he does most of his training. To this day, I’m not sure if I really understand VanOrden (what makes him tick?/what caused his drastic life change?), but I tried to present him as I saw him, with little judgment, in the story below and hopefully allowed readers to make their own conclusions.
This video also ran with the story. It was the Banner’s first original video shot by photographer Peter Crabtree.
BENNINGTON — Tim VanOrden will do whatever it takes today to get his body to the top of a 62-story skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles before hundreds of others.
But unlike his competitors, he is only fueled by fruits and vegetables, some nuts and some seeds, and he eats them only in their natural state: uncooked, unprocessed and unrefined. He is a raw vegan athlete and has been for the past three years.
That is when a mysterious illness caused him to quit his job and try something entirely new. That is when he started running up mountains, then buildings, now in snowshoes and on the track.
Yankees Suck?
The Boston Globe’s Tony Massarotti thinks Red Sox fans should root for the Yankees in the WS [story]. I disagree. I would love to see the Yanks lose after spending $201 million in payroll (the next closest team was the Mets, $52 million behind) and after winning 103 games in the regular season. Also, I’ll be dusting off my #45 jersey for Game 2.
[I like how they had to Photoshop a Yankees hat on Mazz, like he refused to take a picture with one on but still claims to be rooting for them.]