As the 2018 version of "summer of humid" continues in New York City, I have not had any relief during the trips I've taken out of town. First, we spent a week in Jacksonville, where it was very hot, and although I ran 4 times while there, they were all difficult with dewpoints mostly in [...]
Despite having not run a marathon in almost 4 years, not having a month with more than 50 running miles since 2012, and with a recent training base of only 65.9 miles, I went ahead and ran the Mississippi Blues Marathon a few weeks ago, on my 45th birthday! While there were a lot of [...]
I took a 2 month break from running in December and January. The reason for that would be a different post for a different day, but long story short is that once the calendar flipped over to February, I felt I was ready to run again. It is officially the start of training for my [...]
With a big race in the books from this past weekend, it seems as good a time as any to resume my blog! 2013 has mostly been a throw-away year of injuries and running disappointments. As usual though, I'm committed to getting past all of that, getting healthy again, and training for serious distance races. [...]
Been awhile since I wrote a genuine race report. Was absolutely necessary this time, because it turned out that I TIED MY 10K PR, which had been set 4/1/2007. PR's are really great, and should be savored. They are just not easy to come by. My running career is 18 years, and I've run dozens [...]
A race report will probably come at some point in the next couple of weeks, but for now, here are the details of how I did today at the Flying Pig Marathon. My goal was 4:45, and ultimately would be happy with anything under 5 hours. I finished in 4:58:04, and had a great time, [...]
It has been 2 weeks since I completed the Tough Mudder with Joe and Nate. This was easily the most bad-ass thing I've ever done in terms of physical activity, fitness or racing. Here is the intro from the website, to give you a taste: Tough Mudder is not your average lame-ass mud run or [...]
This past Sunday was the 2nd annual 13.1 New York race, in Flushing Meadow Park in Queens. For the 2nd year in a row I had a really nice time. See last year's report here. I was heading into the race with low expectations, because my training has not been great, I was sick in [...]
Yesterday was the March Madness Biathlon in Central Park. First the vitals: Overall time - 1:28:08 Overall place - 197/376 Age Group - 26/41 Splits: Run (2.3 miles) - 19:41 T1 - 1:00 Bike (12 miles) - 46:10 T2 - 1:42 Run (2.3 miles) - 19:32 History of Central Park Biathlons: 9/16/2007 - 1:24:45 3/30/2008 [...]
Today I ran a 4 mile PR at the LIRRC race at Eisenhower Park! I had decided not to sign up for the Coogan's 5k race, which was also today, and then found I actually had time to race, so decided at the last minute to go out to LI. This fit for me as [...]
