Slower than a Kenyan runner.

It’s an incredible feat. Running a marathon in 2 hours and 3 minutes. That’s 26.2 miles. Running at almost 13 miles an hour. Less than a 5-minute mile. I can’t even cover that distance on my bicycle in two hours. The Kenyan that won the Boston Marathon today would beat me. Even if I had the advantage of a bicycle. When I first started running seriously in the early 1970s, I wrote about running. And I ran with some marathoners. In training. Just to see what it was like. And I quickly decided that I’d rather run alone. At my own pace. Just to relax. Not to compete. That’s my style of life. I’ll workout. Doing the equivalent of a marathon daily. But on a bicycle. And much slower than amazing Kenyan runners. –Jim Broede