New York City Marathon

Sitting in the Detroit airport waiting for my flight back to NY.  Thinking that maybe I'll see a bunch of runners heading in for New York City Marathon weekend! I'm doing OK, but definitely not the smooth kind of week I'd have hoped for leading to the race.  Felt the first throat tickle of a [...]

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 [...]

In short, had a pretty spectacular race.  Finished in 2:00:20. The day started out with an early morning ferry ride to SI.  I took the 6:30 ferry so I could chill out and enjoy a bit of serenity before the masses arrived on the 7:30 ferry.  It was a perfect ride.  Still dark when we [...]