Manifesto of the Couch Potato Running Team

           I would like to begin by stating that as recovering Couch Potatoes who had decided to take up Distance Running, we knew going in we were going to stink at the sport, but it just didn't matter.  Further, since we have never taken ourselves seriously, we knew that we wouldn't take the sport of distance running very seriously, we just wanted to have some fun while enjoying the benefits of a moderate fitness regimen.  Many serious runners have taken offense to our approach to distance running/walking and our choice of clothing because they feel we are somehow making fun of the sport...nothing could be further from the truth!!  We are merely making fun of ourselves and our hopelessly velocity-challenged nature.  Moderate Fitness Recovery is the answer.  Are you a part of the problem?

THE FOUR TEAM RULES:

           We may not look serious, but the bathrobe-clad Team members have over 100 combined marathon finishes to our credit.  We are the vanguard of a new movement in America, the RECOVERING COUCH POTATO.  We are living proof that ordinary people can do extraordinary things when they put down the remote and GET OFF the COUCH.  A new Revolutionary War is upon us.  It is the duty of our generation to battle the 'Dark Forces of Obesity and Ill-Health' in America.  The so-called 'Health Care Crisis' could be so much more effectively fought if our Government would urge PERSPIRATION and not LEGISLATION.

Stay tuned America, and don't ever look back because a bunch of guys in bathrobes just might be gaining on you...