October 19th, 2008 saw me complete the second marathon of my young long-distance running career. In some ways I was nervous about it because of the long summer of what seemed like less training than I had put in for Knoxville. The big city pollution and traffic is a terrible condition for outdoor running, but [...]
I ended up being lucky enough to get a call from a fried I met at my previous school named Joyce, who works for an “educational products” company for high schoolers. She recruited me to teach during a week-long camp targeted at kids that were interested in Model United Nations, which I thought was a pretty cool idea.
The past two and a half days all blend together with sleep, not sleep, hiking, being lost hiking, being woken up for dinner, running out of bottled water, YouTube marathoning, real marathon training, failing, skyping, good news, and sitting. I’m going to try a new format and just write on a time line.
Tuesday 2000: I [...]
Sunday: Just got back from a run to The Summer Palace about 4 miles away. Nice weather and I didn’t have to take a language placement test for obvious reasons. It would have been easy to grade though. Anyway, I ran along the canal that connects the Forbidden city to the Summer [...]
I ran my first marathon on March 30, 2008 in 3 hr 54 min. It was an incredible experience that I really want to do again sometime soon.
Knoxville Marathon Homepage
Results
There were several things that I enjoyed:
(1) the culmination of over 6 months of determined effort. I paid the $55 fee back in October [...]
