Today was a big day in NYC running circles, the New York City Marathon.  A thoroughly exciting event which makes for a distracting (in a positive way) week leading to the race, and an amazing race weekend.  I was not running this year, and nor did I have time to get to the expo or

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

We are all complainers by nature, and I do it too, especially on Twitter where there is an audience of other complainers to fuel the fire.  While in real life I am typically not a complainer, there are certain things that do get me all riled up.  Usually I ignore it, and every once in awhile

Running – 98 miles over 15 runs.  A stellar month.  Included a marathon, plus my first long run for my next marathon, plus a triathlon, plus my first run ever with my 14 year old daughter plus 3 speed sessions.  I'm now at 862.8 miles on the year, already shattering my previous high for a

Yes, yes, I know, late again with my race report.  Still working (in theory) on my Chicago Marathon race report.  The short version is that it was a great day, a great race, hot, sunny, with lots of walking late in the race, and super glad it's done! Time to turn the page, and my

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

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

1 day to the Chicago Marathon!  And I'm having a blast in Chicago.  I wish I had the time to go into all the details of our trip, so I'll just have to cover the highlights. This morning I had a nice easy 3 mile run, partially along the lake.  Lots of people running and

2 days to the Chicago Marathon!  And this is the day I almost didn't get the blog post in... I had a good reason, as today was our travel day to Chicago.  We were out of the apartment around 8am, and took Delta Shuttle from LGA.  Trip was smooth all around, and we were in