OK: 24 days and counting until I hit the pavement in Long Beach Island. I did an 11-mile run this morning (listening to Springsteen — “I’m a rocker, baby I’m a rocker…”) in 1:50:34 — that’s one hour, 50 minutes and 34 seconds, or 10 minutes and 3 seconds per mile. Not a bad pace, though the soreness is kicking in about now — mostly abdominal muscles, because I worked them yesterday and the need to keep good posture puts a lot of pressure on them, as well. In any case, here is what I wrote at the end of today’s Dispatches (a longer take tomorrow on the LBI run in The Cranbury Press):
I will be running in the 35th annual LBI Commemorative 18-Mile Run in Long Beach Island on Oct. 7, which raises money for the St. Francis Community Center in Brant Beach. It will be the first time I participate in a race like this — I’ve done a few 5Ks, including the South Brunswick run last year — but the longer distance is a different kind of challenge.
My goal is to finish without walking and to raise some money on the side for the South Brunswick Human Intervention Trust Fund. To that end, I’m asking readers to help by sending me donations, which I will then forward on to the township’s Division of Social Services. Readers who are interested in donating should send checks made out to the South Brunswick Human Intervention Trust Fund to the South Brunswick Post, P.O. Box 309, Dayton, N.J. 08810, attn: Hank Kalet.
They not only will help local families in need, but will give me the extra motivation I may need to finish the race.
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