1576 Steps (Heaven Help Me) to Clarity
That’s what I was thinking as I stood on Fifth Avenue at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, staring up at the Empire State in all its glory, waiting for the 33rd annual running of New York’s famous vertical marathon. Panicking. Like a surfer about to paddle out on a big day at Waimea Bay, I was filled with a mix of ecstasy and terror. At least horizontal-marathon runners don’t have to look at the whole course from the starting line.
I would never have been there if I wasn’t too cheap to take out a decent gym membership. One freezing morning a few months ago, I was headed outside for a run but chickened out at the door. Rather than ride the elevator back up to my 16th-floor apartment, near Washington Square, I headed for the stairs. It nearly killed me. But I was hooked. Soon it was up and down twice, 32 floors, then 48. I could never get quite high enough.
Still, every morning, I would walk out the front door of my building and see the Empire State Building. If I looked out the windows of the New York Public Library , there it was again. Like a beautiful woman I could not force from my mind — an extremely tall, rather dominant beautiful woman — the 102-story Empire State Building became an obsession. I was haunted by the vision of all those stairs.
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