Easy Skanking

I want to thank the emails, comments, phone calls and the like that I’ve received over the past few days, first to congratulate and then to commiserate. The resounding theme is that the effort didn’t change, and that celebration of that is warranted. Its been appreciated.

Permit me just one more observation related to Saturday’s 5k. I was running this morning and it struck me how this episode is indicative of the integrity that is a basic element of this, and I suppose most, local running communities. It was the people who had the most to lose from determining that the course was short that were the most intent on verifying its legitimacy. If it isn’t legit, we pretty much don’t want any credit from it.

And now its time to move on. Easy 8 on tap today, took the Acme loop. This used to be a bread and butter loop, now I only get to run it very occasionally. It was still there, more or less unchanged. Another beautiful Spring morning to run it. And in none too much of a hurry to do so.

When I do run it when I go up the hill on 54^th just before Upland I think of Paul, who me and Erin ran with during his stay at Penn in the summer of 05. He’d charge up that hill like an idiot so many times that we named the hill after him. Paul pr’d at Boston last week, running a 3:09 and ran London this past weekend, albeit none too quickly. He nonetheless made it onto the BBC coverage, which you can check out here on YouTube.

Starting to wind down for Allentown. Easy skanking; 8 miles in 66:56.