First the Americas, Now the World

Well done boys.

I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords

Greetings readers, we here at RDaD sincerely apologize for our lack of blogging over he past few weeks as we have all been occupied with consuming the souls/hearts of women midterms. Many midterms. But we are back, and are ready to pleasure you in ways that only three good looking, intelligent, athletic men can.

The interwebs have been blowing up this week with stories about the Robot Revolution that is soon to take over our gentle human species. First, it was the story of a supercomputer built by IBM that took to (in RDaD's opinion... well Chris' opinion) the greatest show on earth, Jeopardy!, and completely crushed its competition in a two day grudge match. The computer, named Watson (not to be confused with that other Watson that mercilessly destroys his competition), defeated Jeopardy! legends Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter and established its place as the leader of the impending Robot Resistance.

Seriously, the most exciting television you could have seen this week... right? Anyone?

However, it was not until news broke about the world's first robot marathon taking place in Japan on February 24th that we here at RDaD really began to fear for the future of our species.

"The Robot Marathon will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Feb. 24. Robots must cover 422 laps of a 100 m loop course inside the Trade Center within a time limit of four days and, apart from time off for battery changes and on-the-fly maintenance, will run nonstop."

They can take our Jeoprady!, they can take our freedom, but our running? Thats where we draw the line.

If anyone should be concerned, we at Running Down a Dream think it should be Rob Watson; they take your namesake then they challenge you in the marathon? We can only hope that the impending Robot uprising has not yet learned the ways of the FFTF, it's our only hope at this point. 

In other, more uplifting news, Athletics Canada has released more information on its Inaugural National Track League. The big news to come from AC is the pot of $300 000 up for grabs this summer to athletes competing in the league, an incentive that should bring about some good competition this summer on home soil. Prizing structure has yet to be announced but with the talk of a Diamond League-style points system in effect it should be interesting to see who will take advantage of densely scheduled league and who will set their sights on a more spread out season (or European season) in vying for a spot on this year's World Championship team. I for one am interested in the money available for the sparsely contested race-walking events as it has come to my attention that they are not that hard.

In the meantime, RDaD's own Ross Proudfoot is off to Trinidad & Tobago for the NACAC Cross County Championships as we speak, and has brought our beautiful HD camcorder along with him to document the journey. We expect big things from this guy and if his performances over the past few weeks are any indication, we could potentially see some hardware being brought back through customs in a few days. We'll be sure to throw up any videos he brings back as well as have the exclusive post-race interview with the ridiculous-looking sunburnt kid in the days to come.

Finally, as usual, heres a pic of Boorsma looking dumb, have a good day!

-Chris with a splash of Connor

A picture can say a thousand words

none of which are good

- Chris

via Trackie.ca

Anything Can Happen On A Snow Day!

Ladies and gentlemen, we have some wonderful news for you! Today everyone here at the University of Guelph awoke to an incredibley rewarding notice on the University's website stating that all classes will be cancelled due to snow... SNOW DAY!

Chris and I hopped out of our beds and jolted to Creelman where we devoured a chocolate drizzled and whip cream covered waffle, with enough sugar to keep us buzzing the entire day...perfect!

We've compiled a list of the top 10 things to do on a SNOW DAY!

10. Build an ice sculpture of Dear Leader Alastair Summerlee

9. Sun tan on Johnston Green

8. Book a treadmill in the AC for next years Snow Day

7. Rock out to "Icy" by Emcee Stevo.

6. Watch the movie "Snow Day"


5. Win over the girl of your dreams

4. Tobogganing on Lambton Hill.

3. Traybogganing on Lambton Hill.

2. Taboozing on Lambton Hill.

1. Trayboozing on Lambton Hill.

For those of you in Guelph, enjoy the snow day.

For those of you not haha.

-Chris & Connnor