Race #30 – New Jersey Marathon – Long Branch NJ – 05/03/09
It was the best of times. Here’s me (in the white shirt) just before the finish line in about 4:02… It was the worst of times. Here’s me lying on a stretcher with hypothermia and dehydration about 10 minutes after the race… So it wasn’t the ideal ending, but was a good experience nevertheless. I ran the New Jersey Marathon in memory of my mom, who (you might remember) died in New Jersey 50 years ago this year (1959). I was happy to have run the race, and even happier not to have joined her with my ultimate demise. This year’s New Jersey Marathon was cold and rainy. It might have stopped raining a few times during the race. I’m not sure because after a while I was oblivious to the rain and was just kind of on autopilot. I know that a lot of people run a marathon and when they finish they swear they’ll never run another one, but a couple weeks later they’re looking for a new one to run. That won’t be the case with me. One is enough. Although I love to run, too much of a good thing is n...