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This will be a quick recap because I’m not really in the writing mood. Still, I like looking back on these race notes, so I feel obligated to put something down. This morning’s NYRR Team Championships went just about exactly as planned for me. In an email volley earlier in the week, I told [...] I’ve run 10+ miles in each of the last four days. Normally, I wouldn’t feel like this was an accomplishment worth spending much thought on, much less writing about, but this particular streak comes as a huge relief… I’ve been in a serious rut ever since Leadville that I just haven’t been able [...] I ran a lousy race this morning. It was hot, I was short on sleep, and I started out too quick. That trifecta led to a 24:50 four miler, a 6:12/mile pace — slower than my 10K pace and only 7 seconds per mile off my half marathon pace. Helen and I met up [...] It’s crazy how much things can change in a year. Like we did last June, Helen and I headed up to Vermont this weekend to run the Green Mountain Relay with our respective teams. Only, this year, everything was different. And so much better. But this is a running blog and not a [...] I don’t know whether to be happy with today’s race result or not. I finished the 5K up at Van Cortlandt Park in 19:29, over a minute-and-a-half faster than last summer and finished 11th out of 146. But at 6:15/mile, that’s a minute-twenty slower than my personal best. True, the course is [...] Antonio and I headed over to Riverbank this morning to get some speedwork in. The 3 mile warmup to get there felt tough, as most early morning runs do for me, and I was regretting my decision to stick a track workout in the schedule. Running is fun. Running painfully fast on the track, [...] This morning, on tired legs and little sleep, I somehow broke my 5K personal best by 28 seconds, running an 18:08, a 5:49/mile pace. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised by this turn of events. The weekend’s running as a whole was dramatically different than I imagined my weekend between the Boston [...] Yesterday’s run up in Boston went way better than what I was expecting, and even better than what I was hoping for. I finished in 2:53:57, a 6:38/mile pace and a personal best by almost four minutes. That was good enough for 713th out of 23,126 runners. Even more exciting was that I ran [...] This morning was my last real workout before Boston. I was calling it the “dress rehearsal” even though I didn’t go so far as to wear the same shoes or clothes that I’ll be wearing on Monday. The biggest thing was that I wanted to get in 5 miles at 6:45/mile, a.k.a. marathon [...] Back when NYRR first posted the info on the NYC Half, I decided that I’d be skipping it. I just couldn’t justify spending $80 or whatever it was to run a half marathon here in Manhattan. My stinginess worked out well… Today ended up being a great day to be on the sidelines [...] |
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