From a Slow Runner: Bite Me

The Athena Diaries pointed me toward this NYTimes article. Here’s a quote from late in the story: Longtime marathoners like Julia Given, a 46-year-old marketing director from Charlottesville, Va., still find ways to differentiate the “serious runners” from those at the back of the pack. “If you’re wearing a marathon T-shirt, that doesn’t mean much …

Letter to SF Chronicle

This went to C.W. Nevius of the San Francisco Chronicle in response to this story. An oblique response, really. Good day, I didn’t really feel like commenting on the story, because however I wrote this, it would come across as whiny. However, you might find some story fodder here: The Nike Women’s Marathon was my …