giving rise to action; staying fit and sane through running
A love of baseball was something my father instilled in me. He was patient in explaining the play-by-play and it was an easy game for me to understand. He waited to take me to my first MLB game until I was nine probably because he knew by then it would be more enjoyable for both of us. It was 1974 and the Yankees were playing at Shea Stadium because Yankee Stadium was being renovated. He taught me to keep score so I would pay attention.
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I know four of my last six posts have been race reviews. Can you stand another? Last weekend’s race was a great event for an even more important cause, so please bear with me another week.
We ran the 10k at the 20th Annual Ricky Birdsong Memorial Race Against Hate on Father’s Day. There were also 5k and Youth Mile and Half Mile races. Ricky Birdsong was the men’s basketball coach for Northwestern, who, just about 20 years, ago was murdered by a white supremacist. His killer went on a rampage that Independence Day weekend in 1999 that left 7 wounded and another dead. Read more
I spent Father’s Day weekend doing what I have done for 16 of the last 22 Father’s Day weekends: getting away to the East End of Long Island and running the Shelter Island 10k. I’ve written about it here, and here. This year was a little different. Instead of using the weekend as an escape, it was a relaxing weekend of quality time with my boyfriend. Read more