On I went, out of the wood, passing the man leading without knowing I was going to do so. Flip-flap, flip-flap, jog-trot, jog-trot, curnchslap-crunchslap, across the middle of a broad field again, rhythmically running in my greyhound effortless fashion, knowing I had won the race though it wasn't half over, won it if I wanted it, could go on for ten or fifteen or twenty miles if I had to and drop dead at the finish of it, which would be the same, in the end, as living an honest life like the governor wanted me to. -Alan Sillitoe, "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Insta-PR!

NYCRuns (courtesy of the race itself) has offered me a free entry to the 6k race, as long as I do a race report after.  Does this type of compensation make me basically a professional athlete?  A professional journalist?

What's that you say - "No to both"?
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