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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Last Sunday I did something that I had been looking forward to for a very long time. I ran my first cross country race in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. I love running off-road whenever I can, so running a trail race was something high up on my list of things to do when […]
A few months ago, I wrote a post about how I was choosing the Fifth Avenue Mile as my fall goal race. I ran it a little over a week ago, on September 13th. I have struggled to write a recap since because, well, it’s a pretty short race and I wasn’t too sure what […]
I always find it a little tough to write a race recap for a non-goal race. I didn’t really train for this race by following any sort of prescribed plan. I had no real goal time. I had never raced the distance before, and frankly, had no idea what to expect. I was supposed to […]
You may think it is funny that I am writing about an injury four months out. What sort of milestone is four months, anyway? Well, it’s less scary than six — which is what, in good faith, I would have to call this if I was writing a couple of weeks from now. Because the […]
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 […]
The New York City Marathon is a race that I have wanted to run for about as long as I have known of its existence. Those in the know are aware that it isn’t the easiest race to get in to. So I made my commitment to this race more than a year ago, when […]
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 […]
It’s been just about a month since my last race. I have a June race on my calendar, with a pretty lofty time goal. I’m training hard but lower back pain has forced me to take a few rest days in a row. I’m planning on a pretty epic weekend running schedule to make up […]
As long as I live I will never understand how someone could do such a thing. In the not-too-distant past, I called Boston my home for three years. I lived there in my early twenties while I attended law school. What happened today – in the city I once mocked for being too safe, too […]
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