The Joe Nation 2007 NYC Marathon Log

So.... I go to the park to run a nice slow six miles....hmmm,,,, there's a lot of police cars and a couple of huge dump trucks blocking the east side drive..... I get detoured onto the GRASS by a big unsmiling cop just before the Boathouse and he mumbles in reply to my question of WHAA?


The president is in town.

oh.

So I head up the hill into the Ramble which I have been tempted to jog through before but never followed through. The paths twist and turn and bend and end up right where they started so the only way though is to try to spot some building on the West Side and keep it in your sights as you select the next turn.

I loped around for about a half a hour and then headed for the train.

I have no idea how far it was or even where I was.

Joe(I hope he never comes to your town)Nation

that's too bad. i was just about to go pay my respects since i'm in the neighborhood...guess i'll have to dine with the Cheneys again.

Go early tomorrow before the rain.


I'm not running tomorrow. My brother the priest is taking me to dinner.



Joe(watch for lighting bolts about 6:15Pm on the West Side.)Nation

Who, me? But I have meetings tomorrow! I suppose I can tell the good people at the World Bank that I'll only come after the rain.

Tell them you'll arrive right after they fire Paul.

Everything will be wide open again today. Showers tonight.

I'm going to do a long run Thursday morning, rain or shine, and then another on Friday on my way to pick up this week's number. It's exactly the same distance and route as last week, so everyone will get a good set of benchmarks.

(Did I mention I am also going to the Red Sox game on Sunday?)


I am going to the Red Sox game on Sunday.

Joe(On Sunday....I {oh, shut up})Nation

So...
Any plans for Sunday? I hear the Sox are in town.

I went for a run Monday with my coworker Two-Mile Mike. Mike will run
for two miles. Not three. Not one, unless immediately proceeding to two.
Three is right out. We do two laps of a route around our industrial park.
I added on a third loop. Mike was invited, but declined.

It's good to know one's limits.


Did I mention I got my official orange Training for the NYCMarathon shirt?

You can tell it's a cool shirt. Many shirts have huge letters on them:
TRAINING FOR THE BLAH BLAH BLAH.

This one has
in tiny print
only on the front
[size=7]Staten Island Brooklyn Bronx Queens Manhattan[/size]
Training ING NYC Marathon 2007

Of course, it's orange and everybody knows what that means.

Joe(pictures to follow)Nation

aaround here , orange usually mean that yer on a road cleanup crew sponsored by the department of corrections


Farmer--(gotta shake it out boss) -man

TRAINING FOR THE DEPT OF CORRECTIONS TRIATHLON
CLIMB-JUMP-RUN

Off to explore the Central Park...only 10 blocs away. Then I have a long Board meeting, better get some exercise before or i'll die stiff and bored to tears.

i'll be watching all orange t-shirted individuals in hope to spot Joe(paroleofficerishisbestfriend) Nation.

haw haw haw

envying Dag...

Got any plans for Sunday, Joe? The Yankees don't seem to be doing too well.

Looking forward to running the RUN AS ONE Four Mile at 8:30 AM and then hightailing it back to the apartment in time to shower and get ready to go see the Yankees get their fat millionaire behinds whipped AGAIN by the sweet upstanding young men of Boston (Let every knee bend)/

Joe(my wife thinks I am nuts. That isn't news to me in several ways.)Nation

So Joe Nation is leaving the stadium about now. The Red Sox won, 7-4. The Yankees can't seem to beat the Sox. The starting pitcher for the Yankees is on my Fantasy Baseball Team. He took the loss. That may be the nail in the coffin in my matchup this week with Pantalones in Mexico.
At one point in the game, here were some of the names of players participating in the great American past-time of baseball: Hideki Okajima, Chein-Ming Wang and Hideki Matsui. But Boston has a player named Coco Crisp. I kid you not.

Continuing to have the best birthday ever. It was a near perfect baseball day with the sun peeking in to have at look now and then at the capacity crowd. We overfilled ourselves at the clubhouse buffet before the game.



And yes, our good friend, Skip, asked the question during the game. "Is some baseball statistician trying to find out right now: is the first time in American baseball that a Hideki has batted against a Hideki?

Joe(I think Hideki is Japanese for Joe)Nation

How did the race go?

Uh. Yeah. The race. Well, coach, see it was like this, they first told me, the ones who were taking me to the game, that it was an afternoon game, so I knew I wouldn't have any trouble running four miles at 8:30 in the morning and then going to an afternoon game, but then see, they changed it, not the race and not the game but when we would be going because they wanted to take us (me and my sweetie) to the clubhouse for brunch and at first that was going to be at eleven, still no problemo, but then they said they wanted to leave at ten fifteen to beat the traffic.

(I counted minutes... start race at eight 30 sharp, run like hell {okay, 37 minutes flat} go get bag and bagel (ten minutes), run to subway station at 79th street (eight minutes) Take subway home (27 minutes) Arrive home in time to shower, put gel in hair {shut up, it's my only affectation!}, jump into jeans and Red [for Boston] sweatshirt and take the elevator down to meet them in the lobby at 10:15am.)

I had a vision of me falling asleep during the fourth inning.
And I didn't want to do that.

So I booted the race, coach. I didn't go.

I DID do three miles tonight with an extra hardy push during the middle mile during which I completely depressed a much younger guy by passing and repassing him three times.

Joe (and they made me stay up last night playing Scrabble)Nation

Heeheehee.
Unfair question. I checked the results and didn't find you.
Ain't I a stinker?