Alternative Title: Three Reasons Why I Did Not Run the Mini 10K I skipped a race yesterday. It isn’t the first time that I have done that. The last time was a four-miler in the fall when I had the flu. But this time around the decision felt less forced. It was simple, really. There […]
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Preparing for a half marathon takes months, but that last week before the race is your time to begin focusing on race day logistics. Here is how I tackled the week leading up to the NYC Half: 6 days to race day, Monday: I “saved” one of the weekend’s scheduled 6 milers until Monday since I […]
Alternate title: All You Have to do is Run I had set my alarm for 5:20, but woke at 5:19. I shut my alarm before it went off, and set about getting ready. I checked the weather one last time to find that it was going to be pretty cold at the start. I settled […]
I wrote this post months before I started Rachel On and On. It is my very first race recap, written after the 2012 NYC Half — my first race ever. The tone is decidedly more “Dear Diary” than the way that I write on Rachel On and On, and even El Profesor has an updated […]
My race day outfit is something that I try to start thinking about 2-3 weeks in advance of a big race. This gives me the opportunity to test out possible outfits on my longer runs leading up to the race. It also gives me the opportunity to test out my outfits in all sorts of […]
Many people view the “long run” as a dress rehearsal for an upcoming race. In some ways it is. It offers a fantastic opportunity to run a significant portion of your race course, and test out gear and fueling methods. In other ways it is not. Running a long training run at race pace isn’t […]
If there has been a theme to my current training cycle, it is this: I just feel like running. In the middle of January, I froze my gym membership while I was contending with the residual lower back pain that plagued me for a few weeks after throwing out my back just before New Year’s. […]
On Friday morning I tweeted, “7.7 miles in 1:10 Funny how I’m simultaneously shocked by the fact that I am making my paces & also wondering if I should set a tougher goal”. Since then it has been something that I can’t help but think about. Yet, I have decided not to alter my goal of […]
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 […]
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