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Chris
Lear
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NYC
2003 - My First Marathon
by Chris Lear
Over
the past two months, Chris Lear, a Colorado-based full-time sales
representative and freelance writer, has been sharing his training
diary as he prepares to run in this year's edition of the ING New
York City Marathon — his marathon debut. Lear, like the vast
majority of this year's entrants, is not a full-time runner. Yet,
as for most of the competitors running this year's event, November
2 will nonetheless represent the culmination of months of hard work
and planning. Each finisher, in the end, will have his or her own
story to tell. Lear has shared with you his story: his goals, dreams,
triumphs, and disappointments as he prepares to tackle the 26.2-mile
behemoth for the first time.
Entry
#11, October 23, 2003
Finished
my last two-hour run… Ahhhhhhh. NYC 2003 is almost here. Do
I feel ready? No. Wish I had more time? No. That's the beauty/curse
of this the marathon. The date is fixed. You do what you do to prepare
and that's all she wrote. It would be nice to have nothing to do
but run (in a sense) but that's not our bag (for the most of us,
at least). So here we go. For the most part, the hay is in the barn.
Les jeux sont fait. Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
Can
you feel it coming???
Lata,
Chris
(Editor's
Note: Lear's next entry — to be posted October 30 — will
cover two weeks worth of preparation.)
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