Wednesday evening, I headed to the bathroom at work carrying my backpack full of running clothes. It’s a small bathroom and the only real spot to change is inside the stalls. So, I picked one at random, hung my bag on the door, and started changing. As I pulled out my shirt, [...]
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My grandpa died when I was in second grade, so there’s not a whole lot that I remember about him. There were, however, two things he used to always tell me that have stuck with me since childhood. The first was, Never eat watermelon seeds or a watermelon will grow inside your belly. [...] I had the toughest run of the week today. That’s saying a lot considering I ran a half marathon Sunday. But, although today’s run was shorter, it definitely demanded more from me. I started out with completely trashed legs. I’ve been doing long hill runs every day this week, plus last night played [...] Today’s race went about as well as I could have hoped, considering the circumstances. I finished in 1:30:26, a 6:54/mile pace for 319th place out of 10,167 runners. It was three minutes slower than my personal best, but almost six minutes faster than I ran the same course last year (which was my [...] Not there yet, but getting closer. Today was the best workout I’ve had since the injury and it wasn’t even planned. I bought a new computer for the office yesterday so I no longer have to haul my laptop back and forth. To celebrate, I ran home from work this evening. It’s less [...] Today’s run took me through three boroughs, to five islands, and over a bunch of bridges. It was an amazing 12.4 mile exploratory run. Even though it started and finished just steps from my front door, almost all of it was uncharted territory for me. Yesterday, I was at physical therapy for a grueling hour-and-half session [...] |
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