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A fun trip to Seattle's Lebowski Fest

By Jim Caple
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

I'm sorry to disappoint fans of the film "The Big Lebowski," but the real Dude was never that much into bowling. His sport of choice, which he revealed to me in an interview earlier this week, was running. Yes, the man who was the inspiration for "quite possibly the laziest [man] in Los Angeles County" and in whom "casualness runs deep" was a dedicated runner, who said he often did six miles a day over regular routes throughout Seattle's northern neighborhoods. "Well," Jeff (The Dude) Dowd said ...

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