Reflections

Where do I begin?  It is so hard to succinctly summarize all that happened in the past year, and not make it so long that people stop reading before they get to April!  While certainly not brief, I summarized as much as possible.  I completely understand if you don't make it to the end :) [...]

There was much uproar this week regarding the New York City Half Marathon. In a nutshell, the lottery system was unfair to us New Yorkers, as we had about a 12% chance to make it through the lottery, where US and international folks had about a 72% chance to get in.  Really, that is no [...]

I love how the Wall Street Journal is taking more of a dip into the local NYC world, also covering sports, and really doing a great job of covering the marathon in the last week around our big race.  Last week, there was an article, quoting one of my Twitter friends(!), asking if NYC should [...]

This is a great time of the year, namely marathon season.  Big marathons are going on virtually every weekend, and now with Twitter and Dailymile, I know of so many people running each of the races. This past weekend was Marine Corp Marathon, where the runners had great conditions.  It was fun to track everyone's [...]

It has been a week since the Chicago Marathon. The more I reflect, and read other people's accounts of the race, the prouder I am of my accomplishment. It was one of my slowest marathons ever, but I ran a consistent race and was done in by the sun and heat only in the late [...]

22 days to the Chicago Marathon! With no active workout yesterday, or today, I'll turn my attention to my current thoughts on the marathon itself. I'm having a hard time getting myself motivated, and excited, for the race. I guess it will come as the day gets closer, but for now, not much excitement. One [...]

Couple of things: 1) With today's 7 mile run (http://www.dailymile.com/people/cenizals/entries/2733198), I crossed over 600 miles for the year.  Up until 2008, 600 miles was my high water mark FOR THE YEAR, only reached (barely) 3 times from 1994-2007.  In those days, 600 miles was a successful year for me.  I had turned up my training [...]

Spent the last couple of days away with the family.  I really wanted to get a run or two in on this trip, but was sort of frustrated by the location we were in, outside of Boston.  It seemed that all the roads were either multi-lane state highways, or narrow winding roads with no shoulders. [...]

I've had a bumpy road the last couple of months, with shingles, bad toe blister and then a bad cold.  Also, had been triathlon training.  My 2 summer tri's are done, and although I have another coming up Oct 3, my training focus now will be on the Chicago Marathon, which is 10-10(-10).  Will definitely [...]