Running for Your Life: Bay Ridge Redux

Back at it, a half-marathon in October!

Time was, not so long ago, that I’d be deep into training.

Faster. Longer. Stronger.

Now, in my early-60s, I answer to a different call:

Slower. Slower. Slower.

But keep going. Never stop. Not once, in a race, or during a Prospect Park run.

Bay Ridge is a sweet half-marathon.

It starts on a river pier and goes out along the urban waterfront, under the very cool Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and out to the Bay Ridge/Dyker Heights border before turning back on itself, and ending at the start: the river pier.

This year I’ll be launching my Slower. Slower. Slower. self in the race crowd on Saturday morning, Oct. 6.

If you’re in Brooklyn that day, c’mon down to the waterfront. Better yet, lace up your running shoes and come along: 13.1 miles never seemed so short.

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