Running for Your Life: Ridge Running

In the spirit of the wise woman who once said, Walk before you run.

Or is it, look before you leap?

In any case, this relatively old man runner is hitting the pause button on the marathon dream. For those keeping score at home (probably one, me, see previous post), I have now missed two races due to injury: the Brooklyn Marathon of 2015 and the Bay Ridge Half-Marathon in 2016.

I had, announced in this space, an intention to run in the 2017 edition of the County Marathon in Eastern Ontario. And I will, maybe, uh, in 2018.

Due to a professional event that I plan to announce at a later date that falls on the same weekend as the County Marathon, I have been forced to postpone the gratification of running in this beautiful part of the world, ringing the Lake Ontario shore.

Instead, I’ve decided to go back to Bay Ridge Half-Marathon and run along a different water course – the New York City bay waters of the Verrazano Narrows, Saturday, Oct. 7.

Thus, the walk before you run sentiment above … The Half before the next Big One.  Nevertheless, am looking forward to being in this, my first race since 2014 … !

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