Reflections

Today is the Chicago Marathon, and it brings back great memories from my running of the race, which was on 10-10-10. First, was the amazing time I had visiting Chicago with my family for the weekend.  Even though two years have passed, and other family vacations have been taken, I still clearly remember the boat [...]

This thought has been hanging with me for awhile, but thanks to two recent blog postings I came across, I was reminded to write about it. My best marathons have come on hilly courses, NOT flat ones.  What?  Doesn't make sense, you say?  If you think about it, it kind of does make sense, because [...]

As you all know, I'm not so great at posting here anymore.  My we've come a long way (and in the wrong direction) since I posted for 28 days straight leading up to the 10-10-10 Chicago Marathon! Anyway, this post concludes the 'highlights' I wanted to point out regarding 2011.  Find Part 1 here.  Upon [...]

This is the week of the year that I am always the most excited about running.  The start of the new year always invigorates me to do more and better, despite the cold temperatures.  Therefore, I typically sign up for speed work in Jan.  In fact, and this will be the subject of my next [...]

Hi, it's me!  Been a long time since I posted anything of substance.  Now that we are at year-end, figured I'd try to put some updates out here.  Isn't that what all the cool kids are doing these days? In this post, rather than bore you with lists of details of what I did, didn't [...]

Yesterday I ran a 5k race in East River Park, finishing in 29:56.  I typically run 5k's quite a bit faster, but I'll take it, and am satisfied considering I'm still returning from injury.  Today I raced the War at the Shore triathlon at Long Branch, NJ.  It was a ton of fun, but really [...]

Hey, I'm still here, just haven't been motivated to write in my blog through injuries I had in the spring and summer.  I had a very busy winter and spring of training and racing, and after a marathon, half marathon and olympic distance triathlon within a 4 week period in May, I needed a break.  In short, I [...]

I recently was looking at my blog entries from last year, and came across this positive gem, which included descriptions of several construction projects along my routes that had been making great progress or were completed. Unfortunately, 2 of those projects, a year later, are still not done.  These are the expansion of the sidewalk [...]

http://www.reference.com/motif/Science/patience-grasshopper While I've had a good start to the year in many respects, this is supposed to be the year of the bike for me, and I have not been on my bike once!  I sometimes start to get antsy about it, but in reality, the year is long, and the weather will improve, and [...]