Poetrunner

David Lehman is a poet, writer, and editor. His recent books include The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime. Detection, and the Spirit of Noir (May 2022, Cornell University Press), The Morning Line: Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir (Cornell, 2019), Playlist: A Poem (2019) and Poems in the Manner Of (Scribner, 2017). Educated at Columbia University in New York and Cambridge University in England, he edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry and is series editor of The Best American Poetry (Scribner). He has written nonfiction books about the New York School of poets (The Last Avant-Garde), classic American popular songs (A Fine Romance), Frank Sinatra (Sinatra’s Century), mystery novels  (The Perfect Murder), and a major scandal in academe (Signs of the Times). 

My name is Michael Abrain im 50 years old. Currently I've won back to back 10k races in my AD. I've just ran my best mile time in 5:42 as well as my best 5k in 18:30. All within 4 months time. 

I started running in February of 2022 and quickly quit. I was overweight, smoking pot and everything hurt, I decided running was not for me. Cough cough. 

Then I started again in April of 2022 and ran about a 15 minute mile. I felt the pain the soreness yet behind all that I felt sort of good knowing that I could run a mile. I quit smoking pot. 

Little did I know what running was going to do for me other than losing weight. I kept running, the pain was miserable as my body adjusted.