I'm going to try to write about running.

I've thought about this for a while and have even attempted it. The thing is, I don't know about running. I only know about how I run. And even I don't find that too interesting.

So, what I'll try to share is my life around running. My hope is that I'll be inspired (inspiration: I remember you) to do this several times and begin to understand what the hell I'm doing. Yeah. Never mind. I'll just try to write one post and see if I have the nerve to press "Save Entry."

I'll start with my 200 mile relay through New Hampshire since that came up today while we were running the "last 10 miles of the NYC Marathon" in preparation for running the real last 10 miles of the NYC Marathon (very excited about that, by the way).

Anyway, Joel invited me and a bunch of others to join "The Warriors" in the New Hampshire "Reach The Beach." Well, the invitation was a thrill alone. But the idea of running and riding through New Hampshire with a bunch of runners sounded thrilling. It was.

I returned from the experience feral. At least temporarily. Here we were: 10's of teams of twelve riding through small towns and down small highways with no other purpose than to be there in time to receive the snap bracelet baton and cheer as one of our teammates ran away from us down the road.

I'm not quite communicating this.

We existed in our own context with a world going on all around us that had nothing to do with what we were doing.

We ran on the shoulders of highways through the night while tandem trucks whizzed by. We whispered cheers from the van as we passed our teammate because we were told not to disturb the townspeople. We shit in port-a-potties surrounded by homes and restaurants with running water. We stood on the sides of roads where we'd never been before, cheering friends on as they climbed one more hill. We measured time on the arrival of our teammate at the next transition station.

I changed a little while reaching the beach. I'll let you know how when I put my finger on it.

Here's another way we told the story.