The 40-year-old (marathon) Virgin
When my old college roommate, Doug, threw down the gauntlet to run the Chicago marathon with him, there was no time for hesitation.
Once you complete a marathon, the next thing you have to do is tell (i.e., brag to) everyone about it, right? I mean, what else is it really good for?
The good news is that I finished in front of about 13,000 runners. The bad news is that I finished BEHIND about 20,000 runners. Which means I finished about like I did in law school: somewhere below average!
Ah, but my self-important blog, where I am never average. Maybe marathoners and bloggers have a lot in common when you think about it . . . Ergo, ego. Or ego, ergo.
When I returned to my office after the race, I was wearing my marathon medal hidden underneath my suit jacket. I announced to my staff something like this: "Now some may say that running a marathon is a pointless, narcissistic exercise in shameless, attention-seeking behavior for the sole purpose of self-promotion. But I disagree . . . " [whereupon I open my jacket slightly, enough to reveal the medal hanging around my neck] "The fact that I completed a 26.2 mile marathon has not changed me in the slightest . . . That said, however, each of you shall henceforth address me as 'Marathon Man.'"
posted by Neil Chapman at 6:02 PM
7 Comments:
Well Mr. Marathon Man, you have quite the little blog here. A bit shy here and there but all over fun in the end!
Thanks for visiting my blog today, and the sweet comments. If I ever need ANOTHER Attny, then I shall call you to represent me in........?
Well never mind. If it mattered here I would have remembered!..I think.
Thanks, ballerina gurl.
Sounds like you get in trouble a lot, which makes you even more alluring. You devil.
If you are a fan, or want to be for that matter, wander on over to my blog tomorrow evening and come chat with me and Rachel Fuller fans. Should be fun!
OK now off to cause more trouble...or get into it? Whatever! lol
xxxThe Dancing Devil!
I posted that Steve Jobs thing on my blog for ya.
OMG, you are a domer! Hello fellow Domer, I am a MBA'01! But I see that you went to USC for undergrad, how did you feel when you watched the ND-USC game, were you there? Gosh, it's been 2 years since I've been for a game, hopefully I'll make it to one next year ... Go Irish!
I could not have scripted the ND-SC game any better. It turned out exactly as I wished; with ND playing well enough to win, but nothing can stop a team of destiny.
Congrats also on running a marathon. I did a 50 mile bike ride w/ 10,000 others in Mexico last year. It felt like a ran a marathon at the end!
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