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b'It was on April 19th, in the year of our Lord 2000, that I first registered the domain name of SteveRunner.com.\\n\\nIt wasn\\u2019t my idea.\\xa0 It was that of a good friend of mine, Jim, who I had attended the University of Lowell with in the early 1980\\u2019s, and worked with for over 20 years. \\xa0\\n\\nIt was on that 19th day of April, 13 years ago that he suggested I reserve a domain name for my running blog.\\xa0\\n\\nI had been posting my running related essays on a website hosted at CompuServe, but the only way you could read my running words was if you knew the complicated numerical universal resource locator that pointed to it.\\n\\nToday, I\\u2019d like to read for you some of the essays I wrote back then.\\xa0 They are written from the perspective of a new and very enthusiastic runner of 38 years old.\\n\\nWe are quite often oblivious to the way our lives change, and how we change through the year.\\xa0 Your perspective will vary, but for me: 13 years wasn\\u2019t all that long ago.\\n\\nIt was the peak of the Dot Com bubble, President Clinton was serving his last year in office, and I had just lost over 50 pounds.\\xa0 Running had become one of my greatest passions.\\xa0 I had started in December of \\u201998, ran my first marathon in October of \\u201999 and now I had a blog where I could write about the experience.\\xa0 Inspired and enlightened by the cardiologist, fellow runner, philosopher and author, Dr. George Sheehan...I began writing about my running lifestyle and how it had brought me joy.\\n\\nMy life has changed drastically since I first created the SteveRunner.com website.\\xa0 The essays you\\u2019ll hear today are from a person who no longer exists, a younger version of myself that was filled with hope, excitement, opptomism and enthusiam for the act of running.\\n\\nThis isn\\u2019t to say that I\\u2019m worse off today than I was back then...it\\u2019s just that I never expected to be where I am today; none of us do.\\xa0 Go back into your own 13 year old past and it\\u2019s likely that you\\u2019ll experience the same revelation.\\xa0 You aren\\u2019t who and where you expected to be.\\n\\nLife is an uncharted, unscripted reality.\\xa0 It\\u2019s not always dramatic, and it\\u2019s not all sad or happy endings.\\xa0 We lace up our shoes and we open our squeaky doors to roads that lead to an unknowable future.\\xa0 Who you are today is nothing at all like the who you\\u2019ll be in ten, twenty or even thirty years, God willing. \\xa0\\n\\nOne thing is for sure, that despite your best plans, despite whatever goals you\\u2019re aiming for; when and if you get there...everything will be different.\\n\\nThis is who I was 13 years ago....what I was thinking about, what I was writing about.\\xa0 It\\u2019s a revealing and personal cause for introspection...but it\\u2019s also an example for you to contemplate your long ago and far to come.\\n\\nLinks:\\n\\nHark the Herald Boom-Box sings: \\n\\nFeatured Site of the Run: \\n\\nThe song \\u201cStereo\\u201d was by \\u201cThe Watchmen\\u201d\\n\\nIntervals between episodes can be found at steverunnerblog.com\\n\\nIn Vino Veritas with at \\n\\nPHEDIPPIDATIONS SITE OF THE RUN: \\n\\nONLY IF YOU LIKE IT: (But PLEASE, only if you can afford it!) Phedippidations is supported monthly through the kind and sincerely generous financial support of 68 friends and fellow runners:\\n\\nWilliam, Vera, Katie, Heather, Ryan,\\xa0Chaise, Gordon,\\xa0Scott, Mike,\\xa0David, Jeff, Colin, Jason, Diane,\\xa0Cheryl,\\xa0Ron,\\xa0Mark, Martha,\\xa0Greg, Jim, Tim, Bill,\\xa0Michael, David, Doug, Vance, Brad, Marcelo, Shawn, Roberto, Zaki,\\xa0Ria, Jan, Margaret, James, Norm, Simon, Albert, Janice, Andrew, Pam, Rob, Teresa, Glenn, Trey, Steve, John, Angie, Al, Toni, Martin, Lynn, Nancy, Matt, Eric, Claudia, Jim, Kara, Robert, Dino, Joe, Martin, Rich, Sarah, Tom, David, Pierre\\nand one\\xa0Anonymous fellow runner!\\nTHANK YOU! {}\\n\\nFollow me on:\\nBlog: \\nStream: \\xa0\\nApple App: \\xa0\\nAndroid App: \\xa0\\nSupport:'