austin marathon

Countdown to Austin Marathon - 59 days! This is a very busy week, so little time to run.  No running Tuesday or Wednesday.  With a really bad forecast on Friday, I decided to get a late night run in tonight.  Went out at 10:30, and did the 5.2 mile 2 loop tour of Stuyvesant Town, [...]

I was a little unhappy that I cut yesterday's planned 10.3 mile run down to 6.5 miles, so decided to go out again today.  Conditions were perfect for a hard 4 mile run in East River Park.  Temps in the low 40's, little wind, and time to run in the middle of the day (daylight!). [...]

Countdown to the Austin Marathon - 64 days to go! Very excited about Austin.  Today, I've been transferring some of my recorded New York City Marathon coverage to DVD, so am getting in the spirit again. I was out this morning to run some errands, and it was very cold and windy.  When I saw [...]

Went out for a run last night in the pouring rain, and had a great time! My last run had been on Monday night.  By last night, Thursday, I was really itching to get out for a run.  Been busy lately and wasn't able to get any running in on Tues or Wed.  I also [...]

The good news is that it is done.  The bad news is that it seemed to take hours to dry out and get my body temp back to normal after my 15.5 mile run in the cold rain today.  Today is 11 weeks before the Austin Marathon, and today I covered the same long run [...]

I'm a firm believer that speed workouts is a great way to get faster.  The only problem is, I hate them!  I have a hard time doing them on my own, which is why at least for one session a year, I'll take the 10 week NYRR running class.  Since the next session doesn't start [...]

I have a few minutes to kill, so I'm sitting outside at Madison Square Park (awesome free wifi by the way), freezing, but catching up on email, blogs, etc.  Hopefully I'll get a run in later tonight, but with the cold weather, I'm just kind of curious what the weather is like in Austin in [...]

It feels like it has been forever since I last wrote in my blog.  It's actually been 9 days, which is too long a break.  It's just been hard to get the time to sit and write.  Life is pretty hectic right now and it's hard enough just to find the time to exercise, let [...]

This year, I've proved that stepping up the training will lower your marathon time.  I dropped 20 minutes off my time from last year, and I think it was a direct result of running 605 miles from Jan-Oct, rather than the 447 miles I ran last year. However, there is still room for improvement, and [...]