JUST ANOTHER SUNDAY RUN
While I waited for the downtown train, I looked around, I was not the only runner wearing a racing bib. Inside the subway car runners outnumbered shift workers 3 to 1, and with each additional stop our numbers swelled larger and larger.
It was Sunday, well before dawn, more than 11,500 runners showed up for the 2018 NYRR STATEN ISLAND HALF. The air felt crisp. There was absolutely no wind. It was the perfect day for a race.
For the first time this year I was starting a race completely healthy. No shingles. No broken bones. It was my 10th half marathon in 4 years! I was buoyant. I warmed up with a big grin on my face. I was alive. I found myself bouncing up and down on the tips of my toes anxious for the starting horn to blow.