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Where to start.  First, had a great 3.1 mile run last night.  3.1 mile course is a single loop of Stuyvesant Town in the service road, hitting all the loops, and then 2 times around the oval in the middle of the complex.  This used to be a very typical run for me, my default [...]

New York City Marathon is coming up in exactly 6 days, and I'm very excited.  Got a 4 mile run on Saturday at East River Park.  Yesterday I got to the gym and had a nice workout, including lots of sit ups (trust me, need lots of work there).  In the morning, I also got [...]

Kinda hard to taper when you usually don't run any more than 3 times per week!  I guess I'm tapering in the sense that I'm running 4 milers rather than 6 or 7 milers.  Took some extra time off after last week's 21.5 mile final tuneup.  Was able to get two 4-mileish runs in so [...]

I've been very healthy this year.  Haven't had so much as a cold since the winter.  So, of course, I'm paranoid that I'll get some kind of sickness right before the New York City Marathon to mess up my plans to finish in 4:30.  If I don't get sick, maybe I'll throw my back out [...]

Wow, didn't mean for the length of this post to be so long.  I guess a good long run must be accompanied by a good long post. ------------------ Today was the allotted day for my final long run in preparation for the New York City Marathon.  First, though, spent the morning with my wife and [...]

Had a great run on the Downtown Loop last night.  I was fearing the worst earlier in the evening.  At 4:30 I had to run out of the office to meet my daugther at Eleanor Roosevelt High School (she's applying to high schools and doing the tour thing).  It was very humid out and the walk [...]

The New York City Marathon has posted the race numbers for participants.  I got 36423, which translates to the last corral of the wave 2 green start.  Just being in the race is very cool, and I don't want to come across as a big complainer but this is just not my first choice for a [...]

Not quite sure how it happened, but I caught the cross training bug this week.  Coming off the Staten Island Half Marathon on Sunday and preparing for a 20-22 mile run this weekend, I didn't want to overdue anything.  When getting this close to the marathon I start getting paranoid about every little ache and pain, [...]

With a successful Staten Island Half Marathon today, I completed the NYRR Grand Prix circuit for the first time ever!  Last year I only missed Manhattan, so I've completed 9 GP events in a row. Summary: Manhattan - 1:59:05 Bronx - 1:56:54 (PR) Brooklyn - 1:56:41 (PR) Queens - 2:17:01 Staten Island - 2:00:20 My [...]