running

When I tell people that I'm an avid beer drinker, they glance down at my stomach, nod approvingly, and ask "Why are you telling a total stranger this information?" But when I tell them I'm also an avid marathon runner, they look more apt to believe that Charlie Sheen really got rushed to the hospital for laughing too hard. 

Tomorrow (or most likely today, as I'm posting this late on Saturday night), I will be one of the 45,000 runners lining up (sober) at the world's most famous starting line - the foot of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in Staten Island, about to run 26.2 miles through Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and back to Manhattan for the NYC Marathon. This will be my 2nd NYC Marathon, and my 7th overall.