With 50,000 runners stepping with 475-lb force
3 times per second, it’ll be time to fix the roads!

Huff…owww…puff…ouch…pant.  Just nine miles to go this morning…that’s just 18,000 steps…

I am writing this entry from New York City, where the 45^th NYC Marathon will take place this Sunday.  On that date, 50,000 hardy souls will run 26.2 miles through the streets of NYC’s 5 boroughs.  For some of these 50,000, a marathon is a regular event (for example, 69 year old Larry Macon set a record by running 239 marathons in 2013).  For others, it will be a first time try – which may end up being the first of many (who knows, maybe there’s a future Larry Macon in the bunch), or it might simply be a onetime only thing, meant to check off one more item on a bucket list. Continue reading →