
Did a decent 4.5 morning miles yesterday – simply trotted through 3 in the evening – that’s it, very busy all week, so busy I missed and event where I was supposed to see that woman on the right, that’s Michelle
Obama – who was in Harlem this week rallying support for her husband’s Presidential ambitions.
One thing about
Barak Obama that is a total disconnect of my positive impression of him is his chain smoking, the guy's known for going throug

h 2 - 3 packs per day ya know.
The man has children and a wife - makes you wonder their exposure to second hand smoke. He’s been ch
ain smoking for a very long time and I am trying to imagine how he’s managed being a chain smoker, parent & husband.
It's hard to believe his family is not exposed to this to some measure, if only in his home office for example.
Is it reasonable for me to ask, “
Barak, when your first child was born,
didn’t you feel a sense of responsibility to take care of yourself – in the interest of your family going forward?” – that was not sufficient grounds to make quitting smoking ASAP a front burner issue?
I know the addictive component of nicotine and how hard it is to quit – but the bottom line is people do, people successfully quit smoking and I would like to think
Barak has the capacity to have the same amount of will, strength, and dedication, etc. that these others do that successfully quit.
I don't like measuring anyone on the faults but this smoking thing is not congruent with the person I think he is. This smoking thing and his inability to quit for all the right reasons for all these years is simply something I don’t understand.
But you know what I do understand?
Running.
Obama’s got the Kenyan father – but
John Edwards is the real runner ya’ll – did you know that?
Edwards has been running since
’77 and has clocked 5 marathons, his PR is
3:30:18.
He’s such a serious runner he does not want to be photographed running and prefers to run alone – they guy even refuses to be interviewed about his running – I kid you not
- however he gave Runner’s Wor

ld a break several years ago and said,
"He's just very private about his running," an Edwards aide said when I asked if I could go for a run with him after the Democratic convention. "Asking to run with him is like asking to take a shower with him." Claiming that he had never been interviewed about his "obsession" (
Edwards's word),
"At least 30 minutes, whenever we can fit it in." He prefers to run alone, but that is impossible now. He runs to recharge, clear his mind, and deal with hardship, including the loss of his son Wade, who was killed in a car accident in 1996, when he was 16.
Edwards clocks 4 – 6 miles a day and says, “ It's one of the few times in any day that I get to be alone to myself and think”.
He also said that in Runner’s World interview
“
I also love running in Central Park”.
Runner’s World Asked him “When you were doing marathons, did you follow a fairly strict training regimen, or did you just kind of make up your own?
Edwards replay, “ It was strict in the sense that I always tried to run at least an hour a day. I never missed more than one day a week, usually none. As I got closer to the marathon date, I would try to do longer training runs, at least 2 or `3-hour` runs.
I'm very much addicted to running. I think it's more than a mental thing; I think it's a physical thing. I mean I feel better after I run. I know people love to run in the morning. One of the reasons I like to run at like 5 or
6 o'clock is because it cuts my day in half. I can look forward to running, and then when I'm finished I feel good. It's like a new day has started”.
Damn it
Barak, now I have a delimma, the chain smoking '
brotha or the white guy with 5 marathons under his belt that runs 4 - 6 miles per day - loves running in Central Park
and talks my talk. I'm not interested in having a cigarette with Barak - but me and Edwards can clock some miles together in Central Park Ya'll understand this is basically a crises for HARLEM 26.2, literally dividing Harlem 26.2 (Harlem the Black man & 26.2 the Runner). If Hillary got a tan and ran -might be a decent alternative - any chance of that? If you're interested in Edwards,
check out his site. Have a wonderful day.