Definitely read the WHOLE link above.
But also..."The Blerch is a fat little cherub who follows me when I run. He is a wretched, lazy beast. He tells me to slow down, to walk, to quit....The Blerch represents all forms of gluttony, apathy, and indifference that plague my life."
The Beat the Blerch runs are runs that Matthew Inman (the oatmeal) started putting on in 2014. He lives in Seattle, and so the first was in the Seattle area (Carnation, specifically). This year will be the third year in Carnation. Last year he had Sacramento (bummer that it was on the same weekend as
Disneyland Half) and I believe New Jersey. This year he's doing Vegas instead of those other cities. There is also a VIRTUAL race, and you get *more* than you get with the IRL race, except that you don't get delicious cake and nutella sandwiches along the course and after, if you do the virtual
http://www.beattheblerch.com/
As is my tradition (3 years in September) I'll be doing the 10K on Sunday. DH and DS will be doing the virtual this year.
Inman and a friend also created and put out the hilarious card game (along the lines of Cards Against Humanity) Exploding Kittens. I was one of the Kickstarter backers, and was not disappointed when we got our game. Definitely check that out. Even my sis in law, who doesn't play things like that, ended up playing (even I ended up playing and I NEVER play things like that), and it's a riot. Both with the kid-safe deck and the NSFW deck...just hilarious.
Inman also loves Tesla cars. Thanks Matthew. Thanks to you I'll be looking at how to pay for my Tesla 3 in about 2 years... (no seriously, I pre-ordered...while we went through the process of buying a house... of all times to have the Tesla 3 launch)
So basically I just do whatever Inman tells us to do, LOL.
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