Today I ran a route that I have been putting off running for weeks, for fear it wouldn’t go so well. The path is the four-mile center loop of Central Park. It has three significant rolling hills on the west side of the park and one large hill on the east. It takes you past […]
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Sunday was a day of success, indulgence and a few not-so-guilty guilty pleasures. I crossed the finish line of Race to Deliver in 35:10 on Sunday morning. After taking an apple from one of the kind volunteers, I headed over to a quiet bench to stretch out. After a few moments, a fellow runner asked […]
Yesterday morning, I ran in New York Road Runner’s Race to Deliver, an event that has been held annually for the past nineteen years. As I have mentioned previously, I am currently in the process of completing my 9+1 requirements in order to secure guaranteed entry to the 2013 New York City Marathon. So I […]
I had one of those “character building” runs today. It all began with my inability to fall asleep last night, even though I was so exhausted that I declared “lights out” at 9 PM. At 11:30, I shut off my 6 AM alarm and reset for 7 AM. This turned my planned 9.5 mile run […]
This morning, I woke up ten minutes before my alarm clock. I layered, warmed up, and headed to Central Park for a six mile run with ten one-minute aerobic intervals. I returned home and got ready for work. Work was pretty mellow today, so I took a bit of a longer lunch so that I could […]
This morning, I set my alarm for the new seven o’clock and headed toward Central Park. I was unsure what I would find when I got there, but committed to running my usual 15k weekend long run. It is no secret now that the New York City Marathon, scheduled for today, was cancelled. But what […]
Each month, Runners World publishes a feature called Rave Run. It is always a photograph featuring one or two runners running through an idyllic terrain. And month after month, I want to jump in to the Rave Run photograph. I find myself envious of the beauty that some runners experience. A few days ago, when […]
I live in NYC, which means that I am fortunate (for many reasons, but among them…) to be able to train in Central Park. I love running at the Reservoir, the Bridle Path, and doing hardcore hill workouts in the Northern Loop. But more often than not, I find myself running the full six mile […]
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