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- “No, I’m not running the New York City marathon. I’m running Philadelphia three weeks after it.” I swear, I’ve had this conversation like 83 times this week. It is really tough to see the whole city gearing up for this [...] I feel like shit right now. My chest is so tight and my sinuses are still congested and my legs ache and I keep coughing up this horrible, disgusting stuff that I haven’t coughed up since I quit smoking (and which was a big part of the reason I quit in the first place.) I [...] This addiction to running that they speak of is no joke. I’m fiending for a hit. But, no, I can’t go running now. I have to wait until the morning. You would think that this morning’s run would have cured the itch — a total of eight miles with six sub-3-minute (a couple seriously sub-3-minute) [...] I’m procrastinating. Badly. I have so much work to do but I just can’t seem to make myself do it. Yet, I don’t think it’s because I’m being lazy. I mean, I’ve been quite productive in my procrastination. I just spent close to 3 hours busily doing household chores and would have kept going except [...] I ran the best race of my life today, smashing my old half-marathon P.R. (set last month) by over four minutes! My final time was 1 hour, 30 minutes, and 20 seconds — a 6:53 pace! I am still so surprised and overwhelmed… I’m having trouble believing that it actually happened. It shouldn’t have happened, not [...] Recently, I’ve been toying with the idea of leaving New York to go someplace with lower rents, an easier lifestyle, more tennis courts, etc. But then, a run like today’s comes along and I wonder how I could ever survive outside NYC. I mean, after you live here and experience everything that the city has [...] From earlier this evening: J: Do you want to get together sometime next week? |
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