NYC Marathon
I’m sitting here on the airplane coming back from New York to Lima wondering how all the events that transpired to my being here right now came about. I just ran (and finished), my first marathon, the NYC Marathon 2013, which was especially meaningful for the city of New York given Hurricane Sandy last year and the bombings in the Boston Marathon this year. As I sat in the seemingly endless waiting pattern to begin the race I wondered “Why this one? Why now?”… See, last year I basically trained for a whole marathon without actually doing it. Some family members were training for the Chicago marathon and while I couldn’t make it because I had a trip to Puerto Rico previously planned I decided I would do the training as a way to keep them company while they trained and getting some good workouts in after having moved to Lima. While I didn’t do the middle of the week runs I ran almost every long run with them and felt like I was in good physical shape from all the wor...