I ran my first New York City Marathon in 2002. That seems like a long time ago. In subsequent years (2003, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2021, and 2022) I also ran New York City. It is a race and experience like none other. It’s a race that touches my heart and my soul in many ways. I love the big city; always have. And I love running through it. I love the New York City Marathon.
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The following is the sermon I delivered at the start of the 2023 New York City Marathon.
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One of my favorite passages in the Bible comes from Hebrews. Most runners are familiar with the passage as it reads:
“Let us run with perseverance, the race set before us.”
That, of course, is what we are here to do today. We are here to run, with purpose, and strength, using all our abilities and courage and confidence, that race, a big and mighty race, set before us.
Continue reading “Bringing God Into Our Running Lives”
I am a marathoner.
In less then three weeks, I’ll be running the New York City Marathon. This will be my 25th lifetime Marathon and my 10th New York.
I have always said that I will run forever.
Nothing has ever stopped me before. A torn Achilles? Nope. Stress factures? Nope. Other aches and pains and the like? Nope.
I just kept moving forward. (I did have surgery to repair the Achilles, but got right back at it afterword.)
Nothing ever stopped me… except… me.
Nothing ever stopped me, until I did. Or, better said, until I almost did.
Continue reading “Reaching, Failing, Reaching Again”
A New Jersey magazine, Autumn Years, featured a nice article on me for their Fall 2023 issue.
You can read that article on-line here or click the link below.
https://digitaledition.pub/wc/autumn-years/autumn-years/fall-2023/
The article begins on page 44.
ENJOY!
Sometimes training for a marathon can be a drag. It’s challenging and often difficult to begin one’s day knowing that a long run is coming – an hour (often more) of strenuous exercise, out there on the streets alone, often hurting, sometimes painfully so. Marathon training is certainly not fun.
And yet, we go on day-after-day, year-after-year preparing for race-after-race, thinking, hoping , wondering, even decades removed from one’s prime, if this race, the next race, will be the best one ever. (“I wonder if I can set a P.R.?”)
Continue reading “Making Work Into Fun”
So much of life is a process. We work diligently to accomplish tasks, and once accomplish them, we set our minds to new tasks.
Ever forward. Never stopping. There is always a new challenge facing us – a new goal, something different that we need to achieve.
And achieve we must.
Continue reading “And So It Begins…”
A year ago, as I was running every single day for an entire calendar year, I thought it might be fun to also run every street in the town where I live – Wyckoff, New Jersey.
The only problem was I didn’t have an efficient or easy way to keep track of every single street and I figured this was something I would probably never do.
Continue reading “Run Wyckoff!”
One of my favorite quotes comes from T.S. Eliot. It reads, “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
Continue reading “Too Far?”
People ask me about retirement. What do you do now? Are you slowing down?
Slowing down?!
No way. I’m gearing up!
Continue reading “Slowing Down? No Way!”
I don’t know the last time I ever ran ten miles in under ninety minutes, but it was a long time ago.
Guys in their mid-fifties aren’t supposed to be this fast.
As I ran today, I zoomed past lightning. He couldn’t keep up.
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It feels great to work diligently toward a goal, any goal, and to achieve it. I didn’t think I’d ever be this fast again.
But here’s the thing about goals… once you get there, there’s always the next one. There is always a new mountain to climb – always something else to strive for.
Continue reading “Always Striving To Be Better!”
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