He's alive! :P As for your dilemma, it might help for you to go through and post about how Marc is enjoying the run. What does he see, hear, smell, or feel? What about what's going on in his mind? Is anything? Or is he just swept along in the rhythm? Stuff like this can provide insight to your character that one doesn't normally see. And then you could finish by him realizing that Paris is nowhere behind him for a bit of comedy. :D