running

1 day has passed since the Chicago Marathon!  And I'm recovering from a very good race. First, I find it extremely hard to believe that I blogged every single day starting from 28 days before the race, up until yesterday, which was race day.  I meant to post a obligitory post-race entry yesterday, but was [...]

10 days to the Chicago Marathon!  And I got another late run in, pushing the distance up to 7.9 miles.  It felt good.  I didn't feel like I would be able to go another 18.3 miles, but I'm sure on race day in Chicago it will not be nearly as windy or as humid.  At [...]

11 days to the Chicago Marathon!  And today I was too busy to think much about it.  I did get a run in early this morning, which was a bonus, but then didn't have a chance to think about it the rest of the day. I'm attending a conference here in NYC, which means long [...]

12 days to the Chicago Marathon!  And I'm nursing myself back to health, hopefully.  My back is still a bit tight at times, but running is manageable.  Last night I had a very strong 6.2 mile workout along the East River.  While my time was a little on the slow side (9:50 pace), the effort [...]

14 days to the Chicago Marathon!  3 days into my back injury, and, it is feeling much better!  Enough so that I was able to run today, which is awesome!  On the one hand, I had about 20 miles planned for this weekend and only ended with 4, but on the other hand, at least [...]

18 days to the Chicago Marathon!  Wheee - this daily blogging thing is fun... So since Sunday, my right pinkie toe has been bothering me.  Generally speaking, my toes are a mess and hideous, but that one in particular is bad, and was uncomfortable since the run Sunday.  Last night I decided to try to [...]

21 days to the Chicago Marathon!  And today I marked it by running 20 miles, my last long run before the big day.  Today was the 18 mile NYC Marathon Tune-Up race in Central Park.  I added 2 miles to the start of the race to get to 20. No sugar-coating here, the run was [...]

25 days to the Chicago Marathon!  Writing daily posts is actually going a long way to keeping me thinking about my training and making the extra effort to get my workouts in. After not making it to the gym to swim yesterday morning, I did make it last night.  My gym has open swimming from [...]

27 days to the Chicago Marathon, and the time for procrastination is past.  These are the last 2 weeks for hard training before 2 weeks of taper.  Time to get some good quality miles in... I'm impressed that I've been able to do 2 runs in the 16 or so hours since I wrote the [...]