马拉松牛拉松

离开波士顿已经一个月零十天了，心里面还牵挂着那帮朋友，还惦记着那个国际人头组织(HEAD)，还天天挂在那个mailing list上面，关注着来自波士顿的消息。

 

来自波士顿的最新消息，是司徒同学又一次胜利的跑完了马拉松。

我们国际人头组织应该算得上是人才济济。喜欢户外运动的，就有好几个变态。比方说那个嫌空手爬山不过瘾要专门背着一袋米的红拂同学，比方说那个喜欢蹬着自行车在高速上追汽车的little broken同学，还有每天没事就跑来跑去一跑就是十几英里的小沈同学和司徒同学。

小沈同学的故事好像以前讲过一点。几年前刚刚参加cambridge running club的时候，他小人家还只能与老年妇女们为伍，后来越跑越快，进入了青年妇女组，再后来，就不知道他是否超越了青年妇女们，还是由于某个众所周知的原因停滞不前了。去年他跑了波士顿马拉松，后来又去跑了芝加哥马拉松，跑完之后得意忘形，在酒吧里面庆祝出来，被两个黑人小兄弟拿枪比着，不得不把剩余的酒资捐献出来。再后来，听说他小人家的腿杆跑出了毛病，不得不暂时在马拉松的道路上停下来修整。

司徒同学去年也跑完了波士顿马拉松，但由于准备不够充分，成绩不是很理想，决定今年再跑。为此他准备了很久，据说在他家旁边有一个小湖，环湖一圈五英里，他经常去跑，一跑就至少三圈，成了当地一景。

昨天的波士顿马拉松，由于Nor'easter来了，天气不是很好，大家都有点为司徒同学担心，担心他就算经受得住卫斯理学院夹道欢呼的美女们的诱惑，也会因为恶劣的天气半途而废。结果他不但跑了下来，成绩还挺不错。可惜我们已经不在波士顿了，不能象去年一样，在我们的小小condo里为他开庆祝的party。想起来就有点惆怅。

跟这些马拉松健儿们比起来，我老人家就惭愧的很了。这段时间下班之后，都争取去海边的那个保留地走一走。就算不能每天去，一个星期也至少要去个两三次吧。昨天去的时候，感觉到这段时间的锻炼似乎有点效果，于是就跑了起来，结果刚跑了一会儿，两只小腿的外侧就酸疼的要死，最后好不容易才走回停车的地方。当时一边一瘸一瘸的走，一边跟小沈同学打电话，心里想，人跟人不能比啊，不要说马拉松，估计我老人家连牛拉松也跑不下来。唉，老了。

产生这些感概，写下这些话，是因为刚刚看到司徒同学的一个伊妹儿。我觉得他写的很好，现附在这里，希望他不要来跟我讨论版权的问题，毕竟明年来圣地亚哥跑马拉松，还需要我这个牛拉松专家来接待嘛。嘿嘿。

（2007年4月17日于La Jolla）

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附：司徒同学的伊妹儿

Thanks everyone for your kind message, and thanks XiaoHang and XiaoSen for your encouragement and advice before I run.

I had a great time yesterday.  The weather was awful in the early of the morning, but became much better later.  Just as good as every runner hopes for, for the most time of the running, the weather was cool with some drizzle.  It was a great day, great run, and great fun.

To share a few things with you that I saw yesterday:

The most impressive runner was a blind runner, he carried a sign "I am a blind runner" on his back and was guided with two guide runners who were running with him on his left and right. 

I saw a "just married" couple.  The bride worn a pair of running shoes and dressed in white.  She run as beautifully as she was. 

There was another girl I thought impressive.  She carried a sign "26.2 miles for 26th birthday" on her back.  The girl was pretty heavy and run slowly.  I passed her at about 4th mile.  I hope she did well in the next 24 miles and had a meaningful birthday.

This year I think the most enthusiastic cheerful people were still Wellesley girls.  I could  hear them even from half mile away when I was approaching to Wellesley.

The cutest cheerful person is a three (or four) years old body.  He stood on the street's sideway with a big innocent smile and straighted his two arms with both his thumbs up.  He looks very cute.

One thing I have been disappointed with fact that I don't see many Chinese runners in the marathon. Yesterday I had same feeling as I did last year.  There are many runners came from Japan and Korea but I hardly saw any Chinese.   Yesterday I heard at least twice that people yelled at me "Hey keep it up Honda, you are doing good".  I wasn't too happy, they must think that I was one of the Japanese runners.  I hope that more Chinese runners will join us in the future and someday people would cheer me "YaoMing, keep it up".

SD rock-n-roll marathon next year sounds a great year.  I am joining the HEAD team.