Marathons & Basset Hounds

photo: Michael Nagle for the NYT

Wanting to participate in the marathon hooopla, with no actual desire to run, this NYT reporter dude decided to walk around his Park Slope block 75 times, covering 26.2 miles--you  know, just like the NYC marathon!

I wasn't really able to pull out too many interesting tidbits from the journey he made (construction crew worked on building! 10-year-old walked her dog while reading a wizard book! A fat guy stood at his gate!), except for the fact that the reporter attempted to make this journey with his dog--a Basset Hound mix named Barnaby. And, needless to say, you know how we feel about Basset Hounds round here.

YO, Barnaby! Welcome to the Basset Hound crew of Park Slope! So far we've got: Oliver (duh), Oliver's neighborhood Basset BFF Bill, our down the street bud Rudy, a new recruit--Clementine, the marvelous little Maggie, a Basset I recently ran into at the farmer's market--Freddie, and I think Greg met a new sista recently named Precious. *If you have a Basset Hound and I've left you out, please email us immediately so that we can officially add you to the BH Park Slope Crew.

Thankfully, Barnaby was not required to walk all 75 laps around the block, because then Barnaby would be probably be dead (a 5k would be pretty frigin challenging for a Basset).

Anyway.

So this fake all-day marathon happened in Park Slope last week with a NYT reporter and his dog, and then the *real* NYC marathon happened yesterday.