A Sport for Life by Jim Hage Bart A. Giamatti, scholar and former commissioner of baseball, said famously that baseball is designed to break your heart. Like life itself, the game begins in the spring. It is our comfort and companion through long summer days and nights. The rhythms of running follow a similar pattern.
Spring brings a renewal of purpose and hope to our training.
Mileage builds as the weather improves, and solitary runs in the dark give way to Saturday morning group runs, followed by coffee and bagels. For more serious runners, the intervals between telephone poles yield to track sessions. A racing schedule takes shape, and success and failure is again measured in seconds and minutes. Ten Mile race. This year's race took place on a cool and foggy day.