I don’t
know whether or not I have anything to do with the dude who appears in Running Boston (2), but I thought I should answer just in case it refers
to me.
I'm
a curly haired, freckled, and white skinned as a glass of milk young Bostonian guy. You would say I seem to be like an Irishman because my descent came indeed from
Ireland. I run often along the Charles River. Sometimes, I gaze at other
runners. I remember for example a guy wearing a complete black running equipment some Sundays behind. I thought he wore overdressed, but he seemed being cold. I followed him for a mile, and further I overtook him. It
was a bald, thin, suntanned, and about 6-feet tall middle-aged man. It caught my eye the
fact he ran with a very good style, but I immediately thought he was able to go
faster. Maybe he was doing a long training. I didn't know. If he wasn't from New England, he would be an European dude. Definitely, he could not be from one else of the States. He might be Italian or French;
perhaps even a Spanish guy.
It doesn't matter if he came from France, Italy or Spain: he brought the whole Mediterranean in his
blood. They are very different to us, the Celtics. Although some Celtic people
lived at the Cantabrian Sea, and other regions in those countries,
Mediterranean people are another thing. That runner seemed also well accustomed
to move through the Hub. Was he maybe thinking of living in
Boston definitely ?
Two
Sundays later, I saw him again. However, that time he ran faster, and he was
doing acceleration series or maybe a Fart Leck training session. When we coincided under
the Harvard Bridge afterwards, I was be able to see why he ran so fast: he put on a pair of brand-new sneakers New
Balance 890v3 Boston Marathon Edition - M890B0S3 - Paul Revere - reflective purple colorway.
I understood it all at once. How I envied that Mediterranean guy, and even more at
night!!!
Patrick O’Toole
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