Block-a-thon---A few laps later, the world began to shift ever so slightly

[pscot]

I really liked this, which is why I'm posting it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/nyregion/01marathon.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

On Sunday morning, 40,000 people will run, walk and wheel their way 26.2 miles through New York’s five boroughs in a whirlwind tour of the city at its most festive. My personal marathon, restricted to the long rectangle created by Baltic and Warren Streets and Fourth and Fifth Avenues in Park Slope, Brooklyn, offered something more subtle: a glimpse at a day in the life of my neighborhood

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In 26.2 miles, I could have walked to Yankee Stadium and back. I could have walked to Lido Beach on Long Island or Linden, N.J., to Rye, N.Y. (gateway to Connecticut!), to Hackensack or Hasbrouck Heights or through the Lincoln Tunnel and across the Meadowlands to Ho-Ho-Kus.

I chose, instead, to walk a marathon without ever being more than 416 feet from my home, a feat that may never have been attempted in the history of extreme sport.

Buddhists and Hindus, too, circumambulate stupas and temples as worship, an acknowledgment of the spiritual gravity that lies in the center. And what place is more sacred than home?

Fifteen hours 50 minutes and 3 seconds later — I took a lot of breaks, to do some work and take care of my 5-year-old daughter — I finished my unlikely journey, in the same spot but a very different place from where I had begun.

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[underpants]

1. That's pretty damn cool

it is amazing what the mind goes through on the 26.2 and she chronicled it

Great idea. Glad she made the trip.

Two weeks from today (knocks on wood) I will have done my 4th marathon and will be either passed out or still eating and drinking. I can't wait (literally that is why I am up at this hour)

Doing a half tomorrow, looks like in the rain.

ON EDIT- A woman where I used to work trained for Richmond on the same 2 mile path. She hated hills but wanted to do a marathon so she just did the same over and over and over according to the training schedule. Her 20 training run was just 10 repetitions.

[pscot]

2. Be sure to stop at the 20 mile mark

for a pedicure.