Democrat Steve Harrison not only finished second in his race against Rep. Vito Fossella on Tuesday, he finished 26,498th in the New York City Marathon two days earlier.
In what was obviously a bad week for Harrison, the Bay Ridge attorney crossed the finish line in Central Park with a time of 4:47.38, his worst ever.
He even lost to his daughter.
“I got to about mile 16 and [due] to my lack of training over the last few months, I got some leg cramps, and that was a little bit of a problem,” said Harrison. “I was disappointed. I had never done a marathon longer than four hours in my life.”
But, as in his loss to Fossella, Harrison is trying to look at the bright side.
“I kind of enjoyed it,” he said. “I got to see what it was like at the back of the pack.”
