Doing the Work | Career Angles

When Frank and I decide to run the New York Marathon, we did it after spending three years training to run a half marathon. In the first year, our friend Bob asked for support so that he could run a 5K race. I work from home in the West Village and each afternoon I would drag my out of shape body out into the street to jog a little bit.

It started with the block or two and eventually progressed to jogging up to 14th St. and back from my apartment near Houston Street. Once a week, we are made on Central Park West and due to loops around the reservoir. We didn’t train to run hills but there were a few on race day. We all finished.

The next year, we ran a 10k race in Bedford Stuyvesant on a hot day and I still have vivid memories of a large man in a yellow spandex top and shorts jogging with the big boom box next to his head. It wasn’t easy but I finished a full minute ahead of him. Although he didn’t look it, he was in great shape to be able to drag that thing with them for more than 6 miles.

The next year it was the half marathon in Rockland County New York with lots of hills that for me were difficult to run even though I trained heavily on the north side of Central Park with her lots of hills jog up and lots of hills to jog down.

And then came Marathon day.