By gcattarin on 8/26/2008 4:52 PM

 My calves were screaming at me yesterday, and today they continued to yell at a reduced volume.  Not the kind of screaming you usually think of from overexertion, that tight “I can’t move” and “Please God let there be a sturdy handrail on the staircase” scream, no that’s too normal.  These were the jiggle screams, when your muscles are flopping around like elastic gone bad, so far gone they feel like they’re no longer under the control of your own nervous system.  An alien has intercepted the neurotransmitters and is telling them to sway in the breeze, uncontrolled. 

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By gcattarin on 8/22/2008 4:50 PM

Wednesday night witnessed the latest chapter of a New England tradition, the Lynn Woods Relays, not surprisingly held in the Lynn Woods Reservation, which is, also not surprisingly, in Lynn, Massachusetts.  Now, I’ve only been at this game for three years in this, my Second Lap (I do promise and/or threaten to pepper in stories of my first lap as a spry teen), and as such I’m only learning about these classic events. Read More »

By gcattarin on 8/20/2008 4:48 PM

I think about that every year around this time.  Chris chose a unique name for his web site, “Run, Run, Live.”  Might have been a philosophy, might have been what was available at the web domain registrar.  Whatever.  For me it rings true.  Fact is, had I not run, I most likely wouldn’t be alive.  Don’t run, don’t live.

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By gcattarin on 8/19/2008 4:46 PM

How often do we procrastinate over getting out the door?  But how often do we regret it once we finally do get out the door?  I can guess your answers, because they’re they same as mine.  Often, and almost never.

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By gcattarin on 8/18/2008 4:43 PM

Chris Russell has graciously offered me blog space for some periodic rants and ramblings, and so The Second Lap is born.  As for why this came about and how I met Chris, that’s a good story and I’ll save it for later.  For now, I open with my greetings to the thousands, or hundreds, or the dozen or so who regularly follow Chris’s blogs.  Perhaps I can boost his readership to 14.

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