I'm not a marathon runner. I aspire to try a half-marathon, but I have yet to even work my way up to a 10K. Still, I'm incredibly disappointed in Mayor Bloomberg's decision to cow-tow to pressure to cancel the iconic New York City Marathon. The REASON I've never attempted to run even a half-marathon, is that it is a LOT of work. And it takes a LOT of time. Not just the 12 hours it would take me to actually run the dang thing. But the hours and hours of running, the diet-tweaking, the … [Read more...]