Our ambition propels us forward. Runners set goals obsessively as we put in our daily 8-10 mile maintenance runs. Then come our scheduled track and tempo sessions–5 miles at [fill in pace here]–enroute to our weekend long run–21 miles at [pace/effort]. Confident.Determined. We strive for the golden moments when our best performances will be forever…
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Bleeding
Ice sheets lay ahead. I could avoid them. Instead, I charge over them. Smooth glass beneath rubber soles. Darkness envelops me. Ragged treetops pierce the sky. I am alone. Within the largest park in New York City, I find solitude. Yet, solitude now is deafening. Families at home, warm, caressed, fulfilled. I travel forward. Rolling…
Why Would You?
After being told I’m a “great friend” but don’t have it in me to be a good husband or father why would I still want to call my girlfriend, er, ex-girlfriend? Because it is too difficult for me to write those two little letters: e-x. We all know there will be challenges. We know every relationship…
I Am A Prick
4 years, 8 months, and——something. It’s way too soon to do all this math. For the past few years my girlfriend (sic) and I did all we could to get her to medical school. She’s now there. It was a torturous process for her, to say the least. She departed 9 days ago. And I…
How do I find a cure?
When the girlfriend moves to the Caribbean, my family is 782 miles away, and I invariably envy nearly everyone else’s job, what do I do? Through the struggle of physical therapy and rebuilding confidence that I will race fast again–and faster than ever–I long for tomorrow. But what will get me through such lonely turbulent…
Lobby
Eighty year old man.
Don't Let My Parents Read This 