running

Had an awesome weekend.  Was off on Monday so spent almost 3 days down at my weekend house in New Jersey.  Topped it off with a long 8.7 mile run Monday night - more on that below. Friday, kicked things off with an early morning run to East River Park.  It is notable that it was [...]

Got out for a morning run.  Hopefully today is the start of a good new habit of morning workouts.  Yesterday was the last day I needed to get my 7 year old out of bed at 6:30 and out of the house at 7:05.  That schedule was just not conducive to morning workouts.  My kids [...]

Haven't had a chance to write in the last week, so here is a review of what I've been up to! Went to Middlebury VT last weekend.  My wife was speaking on a panel at alumni weekend at the college.  Middlebury is very nice.  We stayed at a great bed and breakfast, and tooled around [...]

Wow I had a lot to say, sorry about the length :) First, right off the bat, I think this was a wonderful event, and very well organized by NYRR.  With the exception of the NYC Marathon, this is probably the biggest NYRR race, in terms of participants, I’ve ever run in.  There were almost [...]

After yesterday's freak out about the Brooklyn Half Marathon, I went out tonight for a 10.3 mile run - my 3 bridges 3 boros course.  Finished in approx 1:40, which included several stops to drink, and one bodega stop by buy a water.  I was very satisfied overall and think I'm in fine shape for the [...]

Getting a bit jittery about the Brooklyn Half Marathon coming up next Saturday.   Since the Austin Marathon in mid-Feb, I've only had one run over 7 miles.  I've been putting a fair amount of miles in, and was well trained for marathon distance 3 months ago, so will just have to hope that is [...]

I was very naive at the start.  The humidity was not high, and the temperature didn't seem too crazy, at 84 degrees, but it was still the afternoon and the sun was shining.  That, combined with not having run in anything higher than 72 degrees since early September (except for a couple of rough runs [...]

Inspired by Runners World, (although I still want to know how to properly run a true mile on the track) I set out to do a track workout at East River Park.  Needed to be sure I timed it just right.  If you go too late, and it is dark, the lighting is terrible.  If [...]

Was too busy last week to get much exercise in.  I was only able to play softball on Tuesday (7-6 loss in extra innings) and go for a run last Monday night.  The run was a hill workout, over the Williamsburg Bridge and back.  My anger has fizzled over the last week, but I was [...]