Only Twice? or The Un-Big Sur Marathon Well, it wasn’t pretty, but Brad and I finished the 36th running of the New York City Marathon yesterday. Here we are shortly after the end. This was my second marathon. When I finished Big Sur in 1996 with my friend Karl Florida, I had a nagging feeling that I’d do another one someday and figured it should be New York given how long I’ve lived here and what a great race it is. From where I sit today, it’s hard to imagine doing another one. Finishing is a truly great feeling, but boy is it a lot of work to get ready for it (not to mention a fair amount of pain…