The Fred Lebow 5 mile race is one of my favorite road races of the year. It honors a man that I respect and look up to - he inspired me in the first few years as I was getting started. Also, the race is traditionally the first scored race on the calendar, in early [...]
Austin Marathon 2009
Bad Long Run
January 5, 2009 – Posted in: Austin Marathon 2009 runningBad runs are just not so easy to write about, I guess. That explains the delay here. Got back from my nice, warm Florida vacation late Thursday night. Drive back was fun, although it was not nice to lose 15 degrees of air temperature per day. 75 in Florida, 50 in South Carolina, 35 in [...]
Happy Holidays!
December 24, 2008 – Posted in: Austin Marathon 2009 runningHope everyone has a great Christmas, Chanukah, New Year, time off from work, etc. I'm taking a family road trip down to Florida for the week. Leaving tomorrow late, after our Christmas party, and should be back on Jan 1 or Jan 2. Looking forward to getting at least 2 warm weather runs in - [...]
Cold and icy week
December 24, 2008 – Posted in: Austin Marathon 2009 East River Park runningBeen too lazy to write lately, so this is an attempt to catch up over my last several runs. Sorry for the length! -------------------- Been very cold and stormy here in the northeast this past week. In the last week, we had snow on (last) Tuesday night, then had snow followed by sleet and rain [...]
On a roll
December 18, 2008 – Posted in: Austin Marathon 2009 runningCountdown to Austin Marathon - 59 days! This is a very busy week, so little time to run. No running Tuesday or Wednesday. With a really bad forecast on Friday, I decided to get a late night run in tonight. Went out at 10:30, and did the 5.2 mile 2 loop tour of Stuyvesant Town, [...]
Tourist dodging in NYC
December 13, 2008 – Posted in: Austin Marathon 2009 runningCountdown to the Austin Marathon - 64 days to go! Very excited about Austin. Today, I've been transferring some of my recorded New York City Marathon coverage to DVD, so am getting in the spirit again. I was out this morning to run some errands, and it was very cold and windy. When I saw [...]
Good ole fashioned soaking
December 12, 2008 – Posted in: Austin Marathon 2009 runningWent out for a run last night in the pouring rain, and had a great time! My last run had been on Monday night. By last night, Thursday, I was really itching to get out for a run. Been busy lately and wasn't able to get any running in on Tues or Wed. I also [...]
Long (wet and cold) Run
November 30, 2008 – Posted in: Austin Marathon 2009 East River Park runningThe good news is that it is done. The bad news is that it seemed to take hours to dry out and get my body temp back to normal after my 15.5 mile run in the cold rain today. Today is 11 weeks before the Austin Marathon, and today I covered the same long run [...]
East River Park speed workout
November 26, 2008 – Posted in: Austin Marathon 2009 East River Park runningI'm a firm believer that speed workouts is a great way to get faster. The only problem is, I hate them! I have a hard time doing them on my own, which is why at least for one session a year, I'll take the 10 week NYRR running class. Since the next session doesn't start [...]
What is the weather in Austin in Feb?
November 20, 2008 – Posted in: Austin Marathon 2009 diet runningI have a few minutes to kill, so I'm sitting outside at Madison Square Park (awesome free wifi by the way), freezing, but catching up on email, blogs, etc. Hopefully I'll get a run in later tonight, but with the cold weather, I'm just kind of curious what the weather is like in Austin in [...]
