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

Just wanted to wish everyone running the NYC Marathon GOOD LUCK and HAVE FUN tomorrow.  The weather looks to be awesomely perfect.  My advice is to slllooowww down in the first half.  Don't underestimate the toughness of the hills in the last 6 miles of the race. As for myself, I've run it 7 times

Running – 63.5 miles over 11 runs.  While October started out on a very sour note, namely a really bad lower back spasm on 9/27 which cost me the Ironman 70.3 Poconos race, and 2 weeks of training, I ended the month very strongly.  This was my biggest mileage month since April, and puts me

Today was supposed to be the day that I raced my first half ironman, but that was unfortunately not meant to be. It all started two weeks ago, the day of the Yonkers Half Marathon.  In what was to be my final real training session, I rode my bike to Yonkers, ran the race and

Running – 52.2 miles over 9 runs.  Sept saw a steady progression in training until the bottom fell out in my final preparation for Ironman 70.3 Poconos.  During the month, I finally felt like I was healthy, for the first time in a long time.  I started building the distance as well, with runs of

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