It is easy to get sucked in to every piece of fitness advice that you see online or the cover of a healthy lifestyle magazine. But it is important to remember that the results of the best studies are based on statistics…and you are not a statistic. You’re a person. And had you been included […]
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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 […]
Disclaimer: There is a lot of Nike in this post, so I just want to say at the outset that this is NOT a sponsored post. There are just some things that I think they do extremely well – far better than the competition – and I often find myself rocking the swoosh, particularly during summer […]
On Sunday morning I added a new game to my repertoire: Cat(ch) Me If You Can It is no secret that I do most of my training in Central Park. And since my usual routes consist of the four-mile loop, the northern or southern five-mile loops or the full six-mile loop, I tend to run […]
How do you keep yourself motivated during a workout? This post is not about motivating yourself to work out. This is about keeping yourself focused during your workout. Here are three of the games that I have been playing to stay focused during training sessions: 1. Twitter + Plank Plank is one of those core exercises […]
It has been far too long since my last post. The last two weeks have been a whirlwind. Mostly good things. I have been on the road. El Profesor and I were down in Central Florida, moving out of our apartment and saying goodbyes. Now we are back in New York and slowly but surely […]
The running community is a truly amazing thing. You already know that running is a way to improve your health, challenge yourself mentally and physically and spend time with friends (new and old). What you may not have realized is that, like many other sports, it can also be a way to connect with others […]
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 […]
I have an absurd loyalty to running shoes. I exclusively wore Nike’s in my teens, Asics 21 series in my 20’s and then Asics Gel Pulse when I first got back in to running a couple of years ago. Last year, when my last pair of Pulses wore thin and I decided that I didn’t […]
Is it just me, or is it easier to run intervals on a loop course? Maybe easier isn’t the right word; but when running intervals, it helps to know what’s around the next corner. I ran loop courses for both of my hard training runs this week. On Tuesday I ran several laps of the northern […]
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