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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