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Sports drinks contain THOUSANDS of calories and some people drink multiple drinks in a day. You might as well be drinking a coke float with a side order of pork rinds.

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Anyway, what I found the most retarded of all was the shit about running shoes.

I talked to a running buddy of mine. The guy is the proverbial badass runner. He's training for the iron man and has completed a couple 100 mile races. He said, yeah sure it's not natural but we're all different, and ultimately we can train our bodies to do whatever. You shouldn't be slamming your heel down like that anyway, your shoe doesn't control your stride, you do. It may affect what feels natural to you, but just like you need to train yourself to hold your back straight and move your arms very minimally while running, so must you train the way you land your foot.

Also, many "injuries" or pains experienced by runners are usually just the result of your body adapting to what you're doing. I had this horrific pain in my knee about a month ago. I talked to my buddy and he said "just run through it." So I did, the pain went on for 4 weeks and it was terrible I was basically limping. Then suddenly it went away.

Sure some people develop problems with their knees etc but others never ever do. Every case is different and it is not necessarily that running shoes are bad for you.

I can't help but agree with him, and this begs the question: to what extent is it bad for you? I think running shoes are probably just as bad for your feet and knees as sitting down is for your abdominal region. Actually, sitting down is probably more harmful for you overall than running with running shoes is.

Is eating anything not organic bad for you? Where do we draw that line? Saying something is bad for you, blows it completely out of proportion. I think the right term is it's "unnatural."

Anyway, that's my 2 cents, now I'm off for a run with my sick new Nike+ Lunarracers!