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 … !
Next: Running for Your Life:
Penguins in Anticlimax
