Hank Kalet

I offer this photo as a symbol of where I hope I am in my roadwork, after more than a year of inconsistent running. I put in 16 miles in five runs last week and eight so far this week — I missed Tuesday because I overslept and Wednesday because I had to get some work done early at the office. But I managed a five-mile run today, lengthening out my runs — it’s been a while since I’ve done five.

But I have a goal now — I’m planning to run the Long Beach Island Run next year with a couple of friends and want to create a stable base on which I can begin my training early next year.

Having set this as a goal, I ran into a friend today who has run several marathons. He was telling me he was planning to run a half-marathon in Middletown in February. tempting, but I don’t want to get ahead of myself. I need to set small goals, work incrementally, rebuild my stamina — mostly my muscle stamina — and then begin turning up the pace.

It will take time, but I’m hoping I’m back in the groove.

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David Wright comes through. A good sign, I hope.

The kid’s been struggling through the postseason after a wonderful regular season. He’s loaded with talent and has a perfect attitude. They need him to hit tonight — and for as long as they are still playing.

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Every pitch seems like it is on borrowed time with Oliver Perez, but he’s throwing hard and hitting the zone. He should have had a 1-2-3, but Carlos Delgado dropped what should have been an easy out.

Perez has electric stuff, if he can throw strikes.

And now we’re onto the batters.

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Dispatches this week offers some thoughts on CBGB’s and punk rock.

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I just want to offer a portion of Keith Olbermann’s soliloquy from lasts nights countdown:

Your words are lies, Sir.

They are lies that imperil us all.

“One of the terrorists believed to have planned the 9/11 attacks,” you told us yesterday, “said he hoped the attacks would be the beginning of the end of America.”

That terrorist, sir, could only hope.

Not his actions, nor the actions of a ceaseless line of terrorists (real or imagined), could measure up to what you have wrought.

Habeas corpus? Gone.

The Geneva Conventions? Optional.

The moral force we shined outwards to the world as an eternal beacon, and inwards at ourselves as an eternal protection? Snuffed out.

These things you have done, Mr. Bush, they would be “the beginning of the end of America.”

‘Nuff said.

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