Strange encounters
// August 5th, 2007 // No Comments » // news, running
When I finished the Half Marathon today, it was time to rejoin my greatest fan, who at that time was back in bed in the hotel, suffering from a combination of jetlag, flue,etc… So I started looking for the best way to get back to Times Square. TheNew York Subway seemed like a great way to get back fast
So I went to the first subway station I could think about, the one next to Battery PLace. I had understood that Line 1 would bring me back, but I had no other information. So I asked two gentlemen, who appeared to be runners as well, in the subway. One of them turned out to be heading in the same direction as myself. So we started a longer than expected journey, visiting metro stations where we could not enter, as we had no card, metro station that were closed and finally a subway station tht had a train to bring us back and a ticket veding machine… (after 100 attempts to slide my card in the right pace, it finally accepted my 2 dollar…
So our journey gave us a little time to talk about running, about travelling and, about blogging. Where we would have exchanged e-mail-addresses a year or so ago, we now exchanged blog-urls 
So now, while blogging my sucess in reaching the finish today, I typed in the URL and found the blog of a loving father that is running in an effort to raise funds for research on autism.As some of you know, my brother Johan had a specific form of autism as well. So, dear readers of my blog, if you feel this to be a right cause, support Rafael in its effort to raise 50 000 dollar this year. Read the blog and/or go immediately to the fund raising page
Success with the rest of your 10half marathons this year, Rafael!
Koen
Update: Continued here
