King of the Couch Potatoes

[David Weinberger]: TiVo makes every person a monarch in the Kingdom of Couch Potatoes.

Cool! Can I use one if I don't have a TV?

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Liza's Repeats

The adults ran repeats on the track: 3 x two miles. Grueling. This running on the track stuff is pretty hard core. The runners are pretty hard core. You look at their faces and you see their concentration, determination and guts and wonder where it comes from on a weekday after they've all come home from work.

So there they were, on a summer Wednesday afternoon, running around in circles four times to the mile, eight to the two, times three. There they were with their shirts and their shorts and their shoes. Legs striding. Arms swinging. Faces covered in sweat.

Meanwhile a seven year old girl ran the track on her own. She goes there with her dad sometimes, feels comfortable deciding for herself what to do, doesn't mind the longer distances the adults run, doesn't mind when they pass her by.

So there she was, two mile repeats were going on around her, running a little workout of her own: one lap, hang out for a while, two laps to finish. There she was, a seven year old running repeats on the track while her father watched in awe, recalling how at eleven years old 330 yards wore him out and made his mouth drier than the Sahara.

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Based on the true story told by her father.

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