Offspring gender

Motorola MPX220

Humans have been doing crazy things to determine offspring gender for centuries. For example, in Austria, midwives buried the placenta under a nut tree - to 'ensure' that the next child would be male.

To see if running mileage might have a stronger effect than placental burial, Eddie Crawford of the University of Glasgow took a careful look at the effects of weekly mileage, training intensity, paternal age, occupation, and competitive performance on offspring gender in 139 male runners. The result: for runners who ran between 30 and 50 weekly miles, only 40 per cent of the offspring were gentlemen! According to Crawford, high-volume running tends to produce dips in testosterone, which in turn produces a decline in the output of boys.

So……I’m puzzled.

In preparation for Bay to Breakers I’ve been running quite a few miles which should have produced a testosterone dip. I have my talents but going through life as a Don Juan isn't one of them. However, recently so many women are interested in meeting me, that just using the first letter of their name on this blog would produce many duplicates. A tribute to my marketing skills? Future will tell if anything will come out of it but here's a sample of the candidates:

# 1: Classical musician. Just bought a condo.
# 2: She thinks I’m very charming.
# 3: Finished filming an indie movie called Valley Fog.
# 4: Looking for a date at the Rolling Stones concert in Boston.
# 5: Business woman. Only wants a physical relationship.
# 6: Goddess in Santa Cruz looking for a younger man; writes mysteries.
# 7: Met somebody from Amsterdam before; the way he deboned her fish made her raunchy.
# 8: From Sweden; likes strenuous exercises.
# 9: Almost divorced; not looking for a shack up right away.

Taking the best traits from all of them surely would result in the perfect woman. I'm still feeling lucky but it starts to become a little bit overwhelming. Maybe I should refocus my blog on the latest tech gadgets instead of my futile attempts to find dates; Motorola introduced a new smart phone with many new interesting features.