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Hello and welcome to my blog. This is my first, so congratulations for witnessing history. I’m am amateur writer, and hell, I’m an amateur at quite a few things, one of which I will be relating to you here from time to time: A few months ago my employment situation changed and I suddenly found myself with quite a bit more free time than I’m accustomed to having. I decided to take up running again. Now ‘again’ implies that I was once a runner. That’s not exactly true. I’ve never really been a ‘runner’ as in ‘someone whose hobby or pastime or profession involves running.’ But I did run once. I guess I’d better start there.

When I was a kid I went on vacation to New York City with my parents and we happened to go when the New York Marathon was being run. While walking around Manhattan my family stumbled upon Mile 24 and decided to watch for a while. I watched all manner of people running the race, struggling through perhaps the most difficult mile, pain on their faces, forcing...