And sometimes, even if only for a short while, I can keep stride with him.
ONE sunny afternoon a short while back, Geoff Mitelman and I strode into the trendiest java hut in Fargo, N.D. Our arrival came as a jolt to the tattooed hipster voguing by the front door, iBook at the ready, headset coiled around his diamond-studded ear.
The World Trade Center seemed for a while to stride along with us as we moved, the way transmission towers do on a highway.
Try a walking meditation, where you focus on paying close attention to your breath and what's going on around you while you stride.
For runners, drones can be programmed at targeted paces, and can therefore act as veritable carrots on a stick while you stride your way to a PB.
And now, as a writer still finding my stride, while I can reasonably expect another couple of decades to thrive, I know that this second profession too will come to an end, that I will inevitably dwindle down to the physical as well as mental and artistic end, the final end.
Jeff Van Gundy and Latrell Sprewell groused about effort, while Riley strode from his locker room to announce, "I do believe deep down inside that this team will have to be reckoned with".
While there have been incredible strides made, and while I now consider homophobia alive and well only in certain corners of sports, most closeted athletes likely don't see what I see.
THEY hunch over to read magazines while striding on the elliptical trainer.
Street spot: Paul Foot and Noel Fielding, deep in conversation while striding towards the Gilded Balloon.
Women roll alternate shoulders briskly while striding backward; men dance upside down on their hands as often as jumping upright.
