Today I ran the Fred Lebow XC 5k in Van Cortlandt Park. It was my second time racing the course, and since I performed so well last time, my only goal for the day was to improve. I didn’t have a particular pace in mind, or anything else. I merely hoped to improve upon my […]
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I am not currently in training, specifically. However I am working towards healing my injury and building up my strength, speed and endurance. My focus on endurance training is a bit different from what it was before my injury. My prior strategy was just to hang on for as long as possible. Now, I focus so much […]
I am sitting at my desk researching summer course offerings at local colleges. It is likely the first step in the process to “going back to school”… or whatever that means. I am not sure yet. What I do know is that if I actually take the leap, I will not squander the opportunity as […]
I have been known to take a pretty hard stance against wearing race shirts for races that haven’t been run. In my 2+ years of racing, I have missed a couple of races: once for being sick; once for being sore; and thrice (all in 2014) for being injured. I even refused to wear a […]
El Profesor and I are fortunate to live in a building with a pool. We lived part-year in Florida for four years and didn’t have a pool; but when we moved to our new apartment on the Upper East, suddenly: BOOM. Pool. I was excited about it, but it took me more than six months […]
Hi Everyone! (by “everyone” I mean my mother-in-law and my running buddy — UPDATED: and El Profesor) I hope that you all had a fun night last night and rang in the new year with enthusiasm! I rang it in with a glass of wine and a relaxed fun night out with El Profesor. I […]
Twice this week I have had conversations about setting goals in running. The first was with El Profesor, where an exasperated me piped up: How is it that I can apply for hundreds of jobs that I am perfectly qualified for and not get a single one of them, whereas I can wake up one […]
This morning on my run I added the Speed Racer theme song to my brain wave radio station. Copyright nerds: it’s not a public performance if I’m only singing it in my head. When I left my apartment this morning, it was snowing and I couldn’t tell how slick the roads were. I wouldn’t know […]
Number of 2012 goals that I set for myself in 2011: 2 (find a new job; run a half marathon) Number accomplished: 1 (guess which?) x 2 (NYC Half, More Women’s Half) Number of races registered for: 11 Number of races I actually ran: 9 (I missed two: one because I was sick; one because […]
Goals. They may change over time, but setting them always has a magical way of providing much needed direction — especially at times in life when you’re otherwise lost. Knowing that I am writing this in the shadow of this post, I want to say at the outset that 2012 has otherwise been a wonderful year, […]
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