Ben, aka BadBen

• Age: 52
• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Pisces
• Zodiac Year: Rooster
• Occupation: Amateur Phrenologist, Professional Numbskull
• Location: Kansas City Area : Kansas : United States

About Me

I find ways to enjoy life as much as I can. Also, life's too short to treat people poorly. I'm into long runs in the park, consuming salt, popping blisters, eating roadkill & tree bark, and burying whiners in shallow, unmarked graves. I also enjoy designing trail race courses that would make the Marquis de Sade blush. A fun time for me would include banging muddy shoes together, setting broken bones with a machinist's vise, and duct-taping-down any part of my body that is bleeding or just flopping-about uselessly. What helps me to be an active trailrunner and grandpa? My secret: 1) Daily sponge baths with bovine stem cells; 2) Copious amounts of delicious & nutritious homebrewed beer; and 3) My secret elixir...Bicarbonate of Figleaf.

What did you dream when you ate a spider while sleeping?

Not again! I run through enough of their webs, and have eaten several. They are never tasty.

Interests

• Trailrunning
• ultrarunning
• trail advocate
• aid station volunteer
• race director for many trail races every year
• website moderator
• homebrewer.

Favorite Movies

• Office Space
• Blade Runner
• 2001
• Snatch
• Annie Hall

Favorite Music

• Eclectic and all over the map.

Favorite Books

• Too many to list
• but I have a fondness for well-written novels.

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