Five Months of Nothing

So the last thing I did was Lysistrata playing the Athenian Commissioner back in January. It was fun. I haven't done a Greek play in a long time and as the only one who could pronounce any of the names, I came in handy. But since then, it's been a long, dry spell.


It isn't that I haven't been auditioning. I just haven't been able to snag the role. The one that really got to me was The Last Five Years. I've been wanting to do the show for a while but, to be honest, I'm just too old for the part anymore. Damn. Other shows have come and I've tried out for them, too, but no prize.


So in my copious spare time, I'm getting ready for the America's Finest City Half Marathon. I've never run that distance, so it'll be a new challenge. I have done a 5K race (placed 23rd) and I will do 10K on the treadmill without too much trouble, but half a marathon is twice as long.


But, it's not completely out of the way. I've got 12 weeks to get up there and I've been extending my runs slowly. This past week, I got to about 8.5 miles in just over an hour. I didn't hit the wall, but I could see it.  I don't have any pretensions of coming in anywhere near the top runners.  The goal is to get through in under two hours.  A friend is saying I should do it in an hour and a half, but that's nearly 9 mph pace and I've never been able to sustain that.  But, who knows what'll happen by August 21.