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Ramble run -- 04/28/10 |
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So... yesterday I promised to show you some pictures of the James Joyce Ramble, which I will do... But first let me provide a link to the Ramble web site where they have an audio file of an NPR feature story about this year's race and its history. I had said a couple of weeks ago that I would probably alternate running (or jogging) with walking, using taking photographs of the actors as an excuse to stop running for a while. (For those who aren't familiar with this race, they have actors in period costumes along the race course, reading aloud from the works of James Joyce.) However, even though I had signed up to run, the pain in my right heel had convinced me that even walking the course would have been a bad idea. So Jill and I set off Sunday morning, driving up to Dedham (a town near Boston)... when we got into town, I realized that I did not remember the way to get to the parking lot we had always parked in (and then walked to the race start). I was driving around but could not remember where we needed to turn. (In my defense, there had been some construction around the highway exit since the last time I had been there (two years ago), some businesses had changed names/ownership, and that section of town is a fairly generic highway lined with exactly the same stores and malls you would find anyplace else.) I found a cop, got directions, found I was driving along what would soon be the race course. Then I found the street leading to the start, but it was blocked off, closed to traffic. I let Jill off there and told her to go get her race number and I would find a place to park. I finally found a place to park on a narrow residential street about three blocks from the race starting line.
So that's the story of this year's James Joyce Ramble... And tomorrow I have an appointment with my podiatrist to check out my heel.
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