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Scott MacKay's avatar

Love your writing Ed!

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Thank you, Scott. You are most kind.

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Charles Morin's avatar

Another coincidence! A few years after I started a practice in rural Hawaii on the Big Island, I read about the Honolulu marathon that was schedule nine months away. I decided to train for it. When I let people know about it, a few said, "If you can do it, anyone can do it". This was a little discouraging but, sure enough, a few people started to train with me. I started out at the quarter mile track behind the school and I couldn't even jog one lap. I kept at it and ran the marathon, and a couple of others as well, and some ten mile runs at the Kilauea Volcano. To this day, I have no idea about what prompted me to decide to run a marathon. For me, running twenty miles was OK but the last six miles was always a misery. I remember the crowd cheering us along near the end, telling us that we looked good, while I was thinking, "Those sadistic bastards! I don't look good, I look and feel like a corpse!"

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

This is right on, Charles. I know how you felt, and mine was only half. Did you continue to run?

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Thomas Shahinian's avatar

Verissimo! Cacato

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Sattar Memon MD's avatar

Hilarious piece by Ed Ianunuccilli!

He must have felt urgently terrible being betrayed by his own colon, which did not care he was an eminent gastroenterologist. And the Squat! And his fellow squat members looking at each other and signaling how the members of rest of the Squat Team were doing! Reading about “ gotta go” malady, I could not stop laughing. With short but effective sentences, Ed made his points. So self- effacingly!

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Thanks, Sattar. It was unforgettable, and perhaps predictable for a gastro guy. HaHA

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Dianne Savastano's avatar

Laugh out loud funny!!! Loved it. I print these out for my dad. He loves reading them but is a bit resistant to new technology. I'm still working on him though. Trying to keep him young. He's 91

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Bless him. I see the Fenway pix, and I'd say he looks pretty good.

Quite an experience for me. Tell him the old Italian proverb, "Chi va piano, va lontano in buon sano."

Pleased to give you a chuckle. We need lots of them these days.

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Ned O’Donnell's avatar

Ed,

While greatly sympathetic to your mid-run quandary (I had the same thing happen to me while climbing Mount Washington, in full view of those driving up), this was funny. A truly good read. Thanks for sharing.

Ned O’Donnell

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Yes, an experience, an uncontrollable one.

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Thomas Shahinian's avatar

Almeno hai potuto fare una bella cacciata!!! Gli Italiani, invece alla mattina, si divertano con un buon caffè e bella chiaccherata.

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Con una bella cacciata e una bella chiaccherata, si fa lontano in buon sano, eh?

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Charles Morin's avatar

Nope, but when we moved to New Hampshire in 1991, my brother and I trained to bike from Manville to Montreal to recreate what our father did many years before. We did the 380 mile trip in four days. To this day, when I see a bicycle seat, my rear end goes into a spasm!

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Ah, I had a soft cover for my seat. Bought it at Benny's

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James P Crowley's avatar

Good thing you had the Kleenex handy! On your next run, imagine that a ceiling is one inch above your head; try not to hit it. Also, incorporating eccentric leg exercises into your strength-training routine—simply slow the “down” portion of exercises like squats or lunges—may help you to naturally minimize bounce.

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Great advice, but my running days are over, Jim. However, my exercise days are not. Thanks.

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Gus Cordeiro's avatar

Great story, great writing, and great humor in this one Ed. Had me laughing out loud!

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Thanks, Gus. You made my day. I should have been a cardiologist.

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Lora Kosten's avatar

I'm still laughing...thanks for sharing.

LK

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Thanks, Lora. We all need to laugh these days. Pleased that I helped.

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RON DIPIPPO's avatar

A seriously funny story! Of all your great stories, Ed, this is the one we'll all remember!!

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

HaHa. Better than meatballs?

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Dad's avatar

Well done, Ed. Just be glad you

aren't a gynecologist! Don

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

HaHa. Agree

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Michael Grilli's avatar

Ed........good thing it was only a half marathon!!!

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Right, but if it were a full, I would have been lighter and my splits would have been faster. Or maybe I have the wrong word. Did I mean 'splits'?

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Michael Grilli's avatar

Ed....Good thing it was only a half marathon!!!

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

HaHa, right. Though I would have been considerably lighter and faster

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Elsie C Romano's avatar

You got me at " I ate pasta for a week". Now, THAT is my kind of prep work!

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Yeh, but maybe that's what killed me??

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