July 27, 2004
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Topher in Training
I truly admire people who run in marathons. Long-distance runner, I am not. The last time I ran a mile in less than 9 minutes, San Francisco started shaking somewhere above 7.0 on the Richter scale. The sky went black, and I lay on the track suffering really bad menstrual cramps for the rest of the day. I don’t run. I sprint.
So Topher, a fellow former commodore, is doing his first marathon. And he’s asking his friends to support him in his cause. How can I refuse to sponsor research for something which is close to my own heart — cancer.
For those who are interested, below is a link to Topher’s site, where he is sort of chronicling his training for the marathon, which will occur this December.
http://www.topherpages.com/tint/It’s funny how Topher used to tell me, when he left the sailing club for his new job in California, how it hurt him to see the club’s website not being kept up after he left. I didn’t quite understand then, and now I do. But as he said, “Sailing clubs cycle in popularity.”
Control freak I am. Sometimes you just have to let go (as in ignore that the old message board is now full of advertisements for teenage porn).
