In keeping with the timeless tradition of bending gender expectations, this past fall I ran the Nike Women’s Marathon in San Francisco. I have recorded a new radio commentary, which will air on KQED-FM this Wednesday, about the freakish mindset required to run a marathon. If you happen to live in the Bay Area, you can hear it on 88.5FM at 6:07AM, and again at 7:37AM, Pacific Standard Time. If you don’t live in the Bay Area, you can hear it live on KQED’s web site, or just wait until I put it up on the listening page of jesseloesberg.com.
Or you can just ignore the whole thing. It’s not like it has anything to do with knitting anyway.
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Another Bay Area marathon running knitter! I had never thought of myself as having a freakish mindset. Maybe that’s why I gave up on marathons. I’ll try to tune in tomorrow morning. Nice finishing time by the way.
Thanks Amy!
Maybe it’s just me with the freakish mindset, but you’ll see what I mean after you hear the piece.
Welcome to the knitting blog ring!
It will be fun to visit and see the things you knit.
Gravatar Congrats on the marathon. We have a lot in common, you know. Being boys, marathon runners (I’ve done 2, Marine Corps and NYC) –training for my third soon, knitting, anyway. Congrats, again.
I caught the KQED piece. I understand what you mean completely. I guess I never thought of that pushing the line between agony and shear will as sadistic. One thing I can say is the suffering is very addictive. Be careful or you might find yourself training for Western States or Ironman.
Run Jesse, RUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNN!!!
I ran that same marathon! Will definitely have to listen to the clip later. Now howcome you got such a nice race picture and all mine look like crap? =)
Congrats on the marathon! Another male, marathon runner/knitter here ;o) Next step for you and your “freakish mindset”…Ironman! Did my first in Nov. 2004, nothing like it ;o)