How Can Anyone Forget?
Of course I remember. How can anyone forget? The odd thing about that day was that I hadn't run. Well, maybe it isn't that odd. I had only been a runner for almost exactly a year to the date. While I ran every single day in the USMC, my first recreational run was when I came back home in September of 2000. My first road race wasn't until April of 2002. It was an 8k in Centra Park and it wasn't quite Spring as the temperature was 35 degrees. But this race or any other racing hadn't yet happened and I was simply someone who ran every once in a while. As a teenager in high school there was an annual tradition where the Brooklyn Tech Football Team would run from the school in Downtown Brooklyn across the Brooklyn Bridge and into Lower Manhattan. As football players this felt like pure drudgery. Maybe I'm only speaking for myself but in a start/stop, power sport it is a good bet to say it sucked for the majority of us. I sort of reme...