Jerusalem Is Much Harder to Run than Tel Aviv

My thigh muscles ache as I run up the cobblestoned ramp-like street leading to Jaffa Gate. I pass through the historic walls, breached for the visit of German Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1898. I speed past the Citadel and down the narrow alleyways of the Armenian Quarter on my way to Zion Gate. I am running in the Old City of Jerusalem! I am running the Jerusalem Marathon’s 10-kilometer race and it isn’t easy! I had challenged myself just three weeks before to <a href="https://ellisshuman.blogspot.com/2019/02/tel-aviv-marathon-man-i-run-10.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">run ten kilometers in the Tel Aviv Marathon</a>. That was the first time I had ever run the distance in a real race. I have run 10 kilometers on a treadmill and on occasion I have made early morning 10-kilometer runs from my home in Moshav Neve Ilan to the entrance of the Arab village of Abu Gosh and back, but Tel Aviv was the first time I had ever competed with others. <a href="https://medium.com/@ellisshuman/jerusalem-is-much-harder-to-run-than-tel-aviv-83fc95934a0c">Learn More</a>