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are you looking to kill some time and are all out of ideas?
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Well, from washing clothes to running backwards, thes guys have become experts in goofing off.
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I seen, uh, that tree and Jenny, your gender, your chances wacky and that so long as a shop on your how time and you can see what a When I'm running backwards, it almost feels like I'm flying because it's such a different visual perspective.
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Seeing how far I've gone, as opposed to how far I need to go when you're going backwards, you can really just take a step back literally and enjoy what you're doing.
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Hi.
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I'm Erin Yoder.
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I'm a backwards runner.
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I have the world record for the fastest smile.
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Ran backwards my fastest backwards smile.
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Time is five minutes and 54 seconds.
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I've been running forward for over 20 years.
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I started running competitively when I was in elementary school and then ran on scholarship during my early twenties.
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I ran so much that I sustained a knee injury.
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My doctor told me to stop running and I really didn't want to stop.
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So I knew I had to make some sort of change.
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Retro running or backwards Running is where you're literally just running in reverse and there's no impact on my knee.
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I run backwards everywhere.
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I run backwards on the treadmill.
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I run backwards on the track and also out on country roads.
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Backwards running feels great on my knee.
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I don't feel anything, which is a reason why I really enjoy it.
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Yeah, stay tall me up way When I'm coaching my track team, I occasionally have them run backwards as to enhance and diversify their training workouts Onward and upward.
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Good job.
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Where to go?
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Good warm up there.
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There's more backwards runners out there than one would think.
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There are hundreds, if not thousands, of people that decide to run in reverse.
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The last world championships there were over 20 countries represented in close to 200 athletes.
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Backwards running has allowed me to see things in a little bit different perspective in a world where everyone goes forward and I'm going backwards.
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It's really allowed me to just get back to competing against myself and not be so concerned what other people are doing.
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It found great gratification in the fact that I'm just competing against my own shadow.
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Everybody's got their favorite part of the cycle.
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There are people who love the wash.
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They love the rinse or the spin or the drain.
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I'm a spin guy.
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I love the spin, the way my name is John Charles, and I'm a washer collector enthusiast.
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Laundry Day Club got started around 1987 I think.
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And now we have, like 3000 members from all over the world.
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But we get together for washings.
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You do laundry toe like four in the morning.
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You do your margaritas and your laundry together.
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Laundry, laundry, laundry.
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We watched the cycles.
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You'll see a lot of us just stand there and watch the whole cycle go through.
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Oh, my God.
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Everywhere.
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All 3000 of us come in with a story like I thought it was the only one.
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I thought it was the only person in the world that did this Get to the site in the collection.
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I've got 59 machines and I've got 22 hooked up and running down here in the basement.
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I have a good representation of everything that was made from 1938 to today.
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E take them all apart and I restore them because I want to know everything works inside the machine, and then the laundry is for me.
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It's sort of like the frosting on the cake.
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Thes machines represent a lot of ways of doing things in each decade that changed that we no longer do.
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And I think it's something that should be preserved for other people.
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If we could get them interested.
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I just can't go to a cocktail party.
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Say, How's your wash your doing?
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Look at me like I was crazy, but I could get together with these guys, let my hair down.
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It's just so much fun to be able to have a conversation about it, because I know laundry is a chore for everybody else, but for us, it za play collecting milk bottles following brown road signs, spotting village water pumps, taking pictures of tombstones, appreciating roundabouts, thes air.
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Dull things to do, aren't they?
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Welcome to the Dull Men's Club.
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I am Grover Click.
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I'm assistant vice president.
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The Dull Men's Club in one of its founders, the Normans Club, is a group that gets together to celebrate the ordinary began in the 19 eighties.
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A long time ago way began in New York City, and later I moved to London and the Dull Men's Club followed me and is growing here in England as well.
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It's got members both in England and America and across the world.
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The last time we did a roundup putting all things together, it looked like we had about 5000 members.
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So here are the people that do things that some people think are dull.
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Here's Steve.
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I'm a milk bottle collector.
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Have some 20,000 mil polls from not just the UK, but all over the world.
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Germany, France, South Africa, Hong Kong, Portugal.
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I've got Iranian bottles.
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Uh, I don't like milk at all.
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I just don't like it.
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Sorry.
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And we have some women that are interested in the Domains Club.
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Here's Amanda.
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My quirky hobby is randomly following brown tourist signs.
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Yep, you heard her right.
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I get inspired to turn off the road whenever I see one.
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I find it very hard not to.
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I follow brown signs around the UK and indeed the whole world.
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So I've now been to thousands and thousands.
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We also have remember that appreciates roundabouts.
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I'm Kevin and I'm the president of the U.
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K Roundabout Appreciation Society, also known as Lord of the Rings.
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That's my official title.
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I have taken thousands of pictures of roundabouts even when I'm abroad on holiday.
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Now a lot of people would find my hubby quite dull, but it's bright being dull.
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It's sexy bean dog, and next is a member that is just dying to get into a graveyard.
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I'm a tomb traveler on.
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I take pictures of famous graves around the globe.
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Probably have these four or 500 various parts of the world.
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Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee, Elvis Presley, Ludwig van Beethoven, Charlie Chaplin.
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Well, I don't feel that I'm a dull man, but people have said that, but I prefer to think that I've got around it.
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I'll be uninterested.
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Takes my mind away from work, and we have dick spotting village water pumps.
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And it all came about through accident.
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10 years ago, somebody pointed out a tiny little pump by the side of the road on almost every village.
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We went through a slam, the brakes on, jump out and take a picture of the pump.
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It's okay to be dull there a lot of studies being done now that boredom has got benefits.
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We're not so interested in the glitz and glam.
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We're quite happy with simple things in life.