Reach for Your Laces
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 16th, 2008
It’s great to break a sweat again. Shortly after my right foot dips into a mound of dirt, my right leg tightens up and I feel that lovely pain up the back of my lower leg. I crumble to a walk and walk the rest of the way home. :-/
So:
Don’t run for two weeks.
Don’t eat [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 13th, 2008
I wake up, enter the bathroom and see a piece of white paper on one of my toes. I rub the top side of my toes on the shaggy beige bathmat, look down and still see it. I crouch down and poke at it with a finger and realize that one of my toe nails [...]
Staring at the wall, my day dreaming is interrupted. “We’re running low on toilet paper here,” a voice calls from the nearest restroom stall. The guys standing along the wall just look at each other.
“Someone should go up to the front and ask for some for toilet paper,” the guy in the stall says.
No one [...]
Posted in On the Road, Running on Dec 1st, 2008
Last year, I reached the end of the extended multipurpose trail and concluded, “That was it.” Before heading out to the same trail this year, I couldn’t help but notice another one on the opposite side of the street on Google Earth. Upon reaching the end of the Cady Way trail, a sign [...]
Posted in On the Road, Running on Nov 26th, 2008
“Thirty-five minutes should be plenty of time.”
I change my running route to head towards the light, 250,000 small strategically placed lights to be exact. I never head down this path as there’s a quarter mile of darkness. A wave of car highlights unveils uneven grass on the ground. Suddenly, everything turns dark [...]
Posted in On the Road, Running on Nov 16th, 2008
It’s a late start on Saturday morning when I begin the usual long run. The highlight is an off-road walking trail that someone told me about that I can’t reach on my normal runs.
Earlier this week, I revisited an offroad walking trail near my usual turn-around point behind the clubhouse. I shifted my work schedule [...]
Several groups of French runners bond forming an impassible wall. A strip of blue, white and red extended from the backs of their ankles and disappearing to the tops of their thighs. I managed to squeeze past on the extreme right side between a lady and a waist high temporary fence.
I pass someone looking like [...]
For the majority of the NYC marathon I felt like I was running in a parade. Everywhere that the blue dotted line on the roads took me, there were people on the sidewalks cheering. I passed areas where families cheered and kids wanted to give everyone high-fives. There were young adults wearing beads and found [...]
Crossing the start line to the tune of “Eye of the Tiger,” I think to myself that this is going to be awesome. The green corrals lead to the cold shadows of the lower level of the Verrazano-Narrows bridge and the orange corrals ascend to the sunny top level.
My plan is slightly different this time: [...]