What is wrong with being an amateur? So what if I cannot be a professional photographer or word-class runner? Should I just stop taking photos or stop running? Obviously not. Unfortunately, that answer didn't seem so obvious last winter. As a result I put the photoblog on hold and really started to slack off in my training. In retrospect it was a stupid decision. I'm likely never going to be the next Sebastian Salgado or Marilson Gomes dos Santos, but I can get a lot of joy out of being Daniel Huggard the amateur photographer and 9-minute mile jogger. So I'm staring the photoblog back up. In addition, I've opened a new Flickr account so I can upload more photos that don't fit my daily posting format on Pixonomy. You can view this photo stream here...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixonomy/

As for running. I just dropped $500 to register for next summer's NYC Triathlon and hope to do several other less costly races in the interim.

Not sure what turned me around. I did read Haruki Murakami's "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" last week. Not a masterpiece but a nice short book with some good insight about running and life. Although, I didn't get out for a run today I did wake up early to catch the NYC Marathon as the runner passed the corner of 4th Ave and 3rd St in Brooklyn.