{"id":240,"date":"2015-07-15T20:24:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T01:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2015-07-15T20:24:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T01:24:50","slug":"a-birthday-an-anniversary-and-a-good-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"A birthday, an anniversary, and a good run"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it’s my sister’s birthday, she’s 40 today. And that’s the way it is. Age is a number, but in the end we’re only as old as we feel, so I’m still like 15 years old, if you don’t like it, tough. Plus, my sister will always be older than me!
\nSpeaking of birthdays, 3 other people I know have a birthday today. So happy birthday to them, I’ll spare them getting called out, two of them are named Lou though, isn’t that strange?
\nIt’s also one year since my house burned down, would you look at that, who would guess. But yeah, one year since I didn’t have a house. I posted before about that. Listen, if you can do stuff for the truly homeless, the truly disadvantaged, go do it. There’s a great place in New York City, Covenant House, takes care of homeless teenagers, lots of people I know have been helped by them. But there are local places to you, there are national charities. Definitely do some research, find the folks you’re happy with and go help out, or give them money, or blankets or stuff. Maybe that’s what I should do, a blanket drive this fall for homeless folks.
\nAnyway, speaking of the Fall, wow I got a flow going today. I signed up for the Hartford Marathon October 10. I got a free entry, thanks UTC! I like running for free. Hugely exciting right?
\nNow, onto today’s run<\/a>. While my knee is still iffy, I’m of the opinion “run until it breaks”. It’s not getting better, it’s not getting worse, so I’m just going for it. Plus I’ll be taking all next week, until Friday, off. I felt good though, averaged 9 min miles (5:29 min\/km) again. So while it’s uncomfortable, I’m clearly going faster than I have been all year. So whatevs. I’m going to go out and enjoy while I can. I still have to sign up for the Self-transcendence marathon next month. and then figure out what I’m doing in September.
\nAlright kids, I need to save some awesome for Thursday night! Take it sleazy, have fun and keep running!<\/p>\n

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