March 4 Run

This Morning's Run

We were almost upended by this morning's torrential rain which miraculously stopped about 6:45 AM. I arrived late to find a group of eight or so already on the road and caught up with the back end of the pack at mile 3 and proceeded to run with Meredith the rest of the way and Dylan and Russ for a spell.  Meredith is two weeks away from her LA Marathons.

 

The wind out of the north was stiff and the temperature dropped 10 degrees, but otherwise it was not bad.

 

Dede sent her regrets—she couldn't find her snorkel.  Something tells me she went back to sleep before the rain stopped. 

 

Two expected out of town visitors failed to show, one of whom was courteous enough to leave a cell phone heads up.  Chris and Jeff remain on the injured list.

 

Running Research Corner

<솼>Thanks to Alfredo for sharing the research study.  I have the following comments:

1. Eventually all runners die (and all people too).  You can't get out of here alive.
2. Runners are healthier and live longer than non-runners.
3. Runners run further than non-runners.  (I know, that axiomatic)
4. There are people dying today who never died before.
5. My personal experiences on runners dying during marathons are as follows: (like who cares??)
• Runners have died in three Marine Corp marathons which I have run.  (Two males and one female).  The males were in their mid 30's and late 60's respectively.  The female was a college student.  Two deaths occurred in mid-race.  The old guy died at mile 18.  
• One male died in the 100^th Boston Marathon just a short distance from the finish line. There were 35,000 finishers in that race. My friends thought it was me because the person was (a) Old (b) Tall and  (c) wearing New Balance shoes. (same as mine)  I was greeted at the finish line with much fanfare; "You're alive!" still rings in my ears to this day. Of course, I already knew that.  As far as I know, no one died in any other long races I've done, which means zero defects in half marathons.I 

Have a great week and hope to see many of you next Sunday.

 

Jack