Round 2, Day #44: 4 miles in 34:00, 8:30/mile. Started reading "Bunion Derby" by Kastner today. Enjoyed the day spent in Galway with Harry celebrating his 19th bday. Got to go on a road trip with him in the PriusC, watched my first ever episodes of Dr. Who, and enjoyed some birthday cake/birthday doughnut. Enjoyed procrastinating from work and it would be nice to not have school tomorrow. Come on ice day! (jk).
Light feet, think light feet Tread lightly, run swiftly then Hop, skip, jump away!
"In a wild grab for glory, a cast of nobodies saw hope in the dust: blacks who escaped the poverty and terror of the Old South; first-generation immigrants with their mother tongue thick on their lips; Midwest farm boys with leather-brown tans. These men were the 'shadow runners,' men without fame, wealth, or sponsors, who came to Los Angeles to face the world's greatest runners and race walkers. This was a formidable field of past Olympic champions and professional racers that should have discouraged sane men from thinking they could win a transcontinental race to New York. Yet they came, flouting the odds. Charley Pyle's offer of free food and lodging to anyone who would take up the challenge opened the race to men of limited means. For some, it was a cry from the psyche of no-longer-young men, seeking a last grasp at greatness or a summons to do the impossible. This pulled men on the wrong side of thirty from blue-collar jobs and families." - Charles B. Kastner
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