Are you ready to take on the challenge of the Bear Butte Running Camp? Watch the video above, check out the camp’s philosophy below, then decide what whether you are ready to strip down and work your buns off to be the best. Camp Philosophy: “At Bear Butte Running Camp, we take a less-is-more approach to training. We strip away the boundaries and comforts of modern society in order to embrace the inherent benefits of natural running, and use those benefits to become faster, stronger, better athletes. Camp attendees will receive group and individual instruction in all facets of distance training and racing, with emphasis on gradually improving performance through motivation, hard work and natural motion. To enhance personal and athletic growth, campers must be willing to shed, at least while at Bear Butte, urban conveniences not found in the great outdoors (i.e., cellphones, television, mp3 players, shorts).”
In my other post, I outlined some of the great life lessons I learned (or tried to learn) in 2009.
This note is about some of the lighter things that I learned from my 2009 experience:
When Bob Proctor tells you that you are wrong about something, he’s not going to change his mind. Face it, you’re wrong. It’s his house, he decides when he is right and you are wrong.
If you spend the whole winter away from Canada, the border police won’t believe that you’re only bringing $20 worth of goods back with you… and they’ll tear your entire car apart to prove themselves wrong.
When you tell people that you are in a reality show, they give you special treatment nearly anywhere you go. (Even if that reality show is your own YouTube channel)
Seat warmers are nice in -30 weather. Someone should invent speaker warmers for -30 weather, though… I might still have all 12 speakers in my Bose 12 speaker system if they did.
Scottsdale Arizona has a much nicer winter than Winnipeg Manitoba, but black leather interior isn’t so smart for Arizona summers.
When someone with 0 friends requests you on Facebook and you are suspicious, you are usually right.
If you decide to crash a body-painting convention, make sure you shave your chest.
If you post pictures of yourself driving your shiny yellow car all over the USA, your Canadian insurance company is not likely to cover accidents.
$1200 is an expensive way to replace 1 tire on your car when you let someone else drive it over a big rock.
When a drunk friend posts a mean message on your Facebook wall and then later apologizes with a private message, 3500 facebook friends don’t see the apology.
Decreases in your net worth due to mathematical errors are easier to handle than ones due to stupid decisions.
Learning to play love songs on guitar is probably more satisfying when the person you’re singing them for actually shows up.
Despite having a major crush on Kelly Clarkson for the last several years, I don’t regret not going on a date with her when I had the chance. (Yeah, she might not feel the same way, but that’s okay…)
Overall, 2009 was a great, funny, exciting, adventurous and satisfying year. I’m hoping to learn different lessons in 2010, though.
How about you? What happened in 2009 that might have sucked at first, but looking back you are now able to laugh about it?
Sadly, most non-Canadians may not usually celebrate Canada Day…. despite the sacred & holy nature of this annual holiday. (We can forgive them, though, eh?)
So, in an attempt to enlighten our non-Canadian neighbours (yes, note the Canadian spelling) I have put together a list of reasons why EVERYONE should celebrate Canada Day. Here are some of the profound contributions to our planet made by Canadians. (WARNING, After reading this list you will yearn for honorary Canadian status)
The Antigravity suit
Balderdash, the awesome board game
Basketball – Seriously, what would the world be without Kobe & the NBA Finals??
Butter substitute (yuck)
Computerized braille (sorry, this blog isn’t written in computerized braille…)
Disintegrating plastic (AND we recycle like mofo’s)
Ear piercer (I wouldn’t have been so cool in junior high if it weren’t for this invention!)
Electric cooking range, that cooked my homemade pizza last night
Electric car (North America’s first)
Electric wheelchair
Electron microscope
Five pin bowling (If you dare say that 10 pin is better i’ll punch your nose)
Foghorn - (yes, press play if you have never heard one)
Green plastic garbage bags
Ginger Ale (ever had a sore tummy? This stuff is liquid gold!)
Goalie masks
Green ink
Heart valve operation (first performed)
IMAX
Instant potato flakes (barf…)
Insulation
Insulin (as diabetes treatment)
Java, the programming language
Jolly jumper – Man did I ever LOVE this one as a kid
Kerosene
Lacrosse (Canada’s national sport… surprised?)
Lightbulb (first patented… and you thought it was Edison, didn’t you!)
Liposomes (seriously, what would life be without knowing about liposomes…)
Muskol (if you’re not from Manitoba, you might not know that this is mosquito spray)
Newsprint
Nursing Mother Breast Pads
Pablum
Pacemaker
Paint roller
Panoramic camera
Pictionary
Pizza pizza telephone computer delivery services
Portable high chair
Puzz-3D
Retractable beer carton handle
Rollerskates
ski-binding
Snowblower
Snowmobile
Snowplow (are you sensing a pattern yet?)
Stanley Cup
Superman
Table hockey
Telephone
Trivial Pursuit
Walkie-Talkies
Washing machine
Yahtzee
AND, last but definitely not least…… zippers! (Sorry if you are Amish & reading this)
Which ones are your favorite? Did I miss anything?
Now that you know… go ahead, HUG A CANADIAN! Send some love to your favorite Canadian who may have in some way helped make you world a better place.
