August1
You too can lose a reader!
It’ll be easy! Follow these easy steps from this special offer:
1) Send me another ad with my monthly subscription that is this offensive to women:
2) Don’t apologize in the next issue for perpetuating the idea that women need to be concerned with how they look and especially how they look naked as opposed to living a healthy lifestyle.
Look, I don’t read Women’s Health. Is it possible they’re a magazine that promotes a strong and self-reliant woman? Sure, but based on the cover and “health guides” (HA!) shown on this ad, I don’t read Women’s Health because they think I, as a woman, should be concerned with ‘big sex secrets’ and ‘how I look naked’. Guess what? No.
I understand you make money via these ads stuck in plastic with our decently low priced monthly subscription, but you should be more discerning about what ads you approve. Women runners are strong, healthy women who don’t appreciate being told that maybe we’re not good enough and should work on that. Remember how confidence is an important part of running, racing, and life? Magazines and ads like this work against that confidence to tell women there’s more than training and working hard and meeting goals (in any facet of life) – there are ‘cellulite blasters’ and ‘super-hot sex secrets’ and ’6 flat-belly powerfoods’.
I don’t get women’s magazines because I don’t want to be told I should be concerned with how I look or if I’m pleasing my man. I read Runner’s World because it tells me how to run effectively and be healthy. Stick to that, even in advertising, RW, and you’ll have me for life.
June20
The Ragnar Wasatch Back was a great event, as usual. The start and finished lines were changed this year. While I never really had a problem with the start line, the change at the finish line was 100% better than last year.
I was runner #1, starting in the first group at 5:00AM in Logan. Well, the entire group took a one mile wrong turn up a HUGE hill. Then the people at the beginning realized they were going the wrong way, and turned around…and took the rest of us back on course with them. So instead of 6.9 miles, my guess is most of us went more like 8.2 or 8.4. This of course, was a big bonding point among all of us who started at 5AM for the rest of the race.
Leg #2 was 8.3 miles, mostly downhill. Due to another course alteration, instead of being on pavement entirely, it started on a dirt trail, crossed a snow field (which was totally fun!) and then joined up to the pavement with the expected 7+ miles downhill. This leg is the reason I wanted to be runner #1. It’s the road from Snowbasin Ski Resort to the highway, and it’s absolutely beautiful.
Leg #3 was from Oakley to Kamas, and included a one mile section that I run at least once a week, if not more. That part was fun, but it was kind of boring otherwise. SR 32 just isn’t that interesting of a road, especially at 3:00AM.
Our team came in just over 32 hours. We had a great time, of course.
Starting Sunday evening (after recovery from the above), I began honey application again. Now that I’ve got it more down, it’s going easier. Still finding master improvement in my lymph nodes, hoping I’ll start see some massive improvement in the flakes on my scalp in the next day or two.
June16
Well, life’s been busy. I’ve been getting ready for the Ragnar Wasatch Back relay, and so for the last two nights, I didn’t have time for honeying my head.
And it’s obvious. The spot on my eyelid was there again today (I did a quick treatment just there this morning), and my head is starting to get worse again. My lymph nodes had started getting smaller (it’s been apparent to me for a while that their swelling is related to the sep. derm), but are now regaining a little bit of size and firmness. So, starting Saturday (after Ragnar), I begin honey treatment again. I wish I could have kept it up this week, but I couldn’t. So, updates will start again over the weekend!
June12
Just another day. Actually, my scalped itched a whole lot today, but I think it’s because my skin was healing.
Application tonight didn’t go so well. I didn’t thin out the honey as much as I have for the past two nights, and it was too sticky. My hair got too firm, too fast and I wasn’t able to get much onto my scalp. But, I did what I could. No massive improvement, but I’ll go again tomorrow.
My eyelid, of course, still looks amazing with no sign of sep. derm.
