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[A] Moroccan runner ... completed the grueling Marathon des Sables through the Sahara Desert earlier this week. He is talented and he is also a dog.

Cactus linked up with the race after Sunday’s opening 20-mile stage, sticking around for the next four stages and 120 miles of running. The Marathon des Sables is a famously difficult race, where competitors have to run an average of 23.5 miles per day for five days straight through the sand, sun, and wind of the unforgiving Sahara of southern Morocco. It’s not the sort of thing anyone does primarily for fun, excepting of course Cactus, who seemed to enjoy his time with the race.

https://deadspin.com/dog-runs-grueling-desert-ultramarathon-just-for-fun-1834006536

haha fair enough. although my own relatively limited experience with getting people to throw me lobs is that it's harder than it looks. maybe all your boy needs is a bit of a talking-to about the zip he puts on them.

This is a thing. Throwing an oop is a skill .. ive had one PG i met for the first time who nailed it and it was refreshing. They make it seem so effortless in the NBA, makes me wonder what normal players are missing about throwing them.

you mean other than 99.99999th percentile kinesthetic sense and countless hours of practice?

i can't watch the game over here but even just watching the score progress is tense. it's 66-65 TT with 0:35 to go. i'm missing a classic, damn it!   

OVERTIME! someone on UVA hit a huge three. fuck this is an excruciating way to follow a basketball game.

- run 8.56 km in 43:19

- stretch

nice and normal

oh man want to try this now. need to think about where i could do everything here. maybe i'll wait until belgium.

- run 10.49 km in 58:09
wack run. meant to do 12 km but lightning started while i was doing laps at the track and the wind was moving in the wrong direction, i.e. it started on the other side of my neighborhood and was moving quickly toward me. so i cut the track a few laps short and headed home, trying to stay under tree cover and zipping across open areas. by the time i got to the main street in my neighborhood, about 1-1.5 km from home, i could see the lightning making ground contact, no delay between strikes and thunder. a friend lives right around there so i ducked into her guard's booth. he tried to call her so i could go up and wait it out in her place but he didn't get through. so i waited with him until it seemed like the lightning had moved on a bit. nice dude. did the last km pretty quick.

- pull up myo-reps x 10+3+2
loooooool i am weak

- push up x 16
just to match reps

- hollow body hold x 20s
barely worth journaling

- stretch

gonna have a first-time champ, which is great. and at least michigan state, aka the most morally bankrupt D1 athletic program (which is really saying something), is out.