so i’m pretty busy with my “battle of the books” story for national novel writing month – currently writing about a pop singer named dani (actually, her real name is danielle, but she was forced to use dani to be more “poppy” – or whatever you call a pop singer) – anyway, dani, like all good pop stars, has her songs written for her – and she needs new ones for her next album – which, they decide will be dedicated to the troops leading the battle overseas – patriotic and all…

as for reading…
“run fast” – about 150 pages – a reread – pretty good – lots i already know – but motivation to run fast, i guess – reinforced the importance of speed work to me – although, i’d overdone it for about a year – and the book has helped me realize that

“cc pyle and his amazing race” – wonderful book that a story in the 8th grade lit book is based on – in 1928, a promoter created a race across america – started with 300 runners and basically broke them down over the next three months as they ran 33, 50, 60 mile days – incredible 3,000 mile race – and they were promised money – and got very, very little in return

re-reading the book of matthew also – read sports illustrated (and it’s predictable stories about the nfl – shocking things like… nfl teams pass more today than they used to) – the economist – and my bank statement (okay, not the statement – that would be weak reading – but my bank company was bought out so i got a huge packet informing me of all the changes – which make no sense…)

okay, back to novel writing – also known as watching the new york marathon…

maf