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I wish more days were like today. This morning started off just about as good as they get. And from there, it just kept rolling. Nearing 8 o’clock, I found myself lined up and ready to race in Central Park. My nerves were so bad that I was in serious physical pain, but [...] A little less than two weeks ago, I got an email from one of my Green Mountain Relay teammates: HELP! We need a Reach the Beach runner!!! Lucky for me, I had a couple vacation days available and a little money to burn and was able to tell Maria to count me in. [...] 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 [...] My return to racing was not pretty. Those hills up in Van Cortland Park chewed me up then shat me out. I had a good idea what to expect, thanks to the Tweets from Joe Garland, but I had no way of knowing how poorly I would respond to the challenges of [...] I spent my weekend up in Vermont running my first ever long distance relay race. Our team, NYC Running Chicks and a Few Dudes, ran the (approximately) 200 mile course in 26 hours, 29 minutes, and 53 seconds for a 16th place overall finish. As you can imagine, I’m more than a little tired out [...] Rough day out in Brooklyn today. I finished with a new personal record by 13 seconds (1:27:17 was the official time), but I was anticipating a much bigger improvement. More importantly, I was expecting myself to run a better race. Instead of running hard the whole 13.1, I just sort of gave [...] Yesterday morning, I ran the Bolder Boulder for the fifth time. A little less than an hour after finishing, I ran it for the sixth time. And that wasn’t even the best running day of the trip. My plan had been to take it easy out here and recover from the marathon, [...] I got a new trophy for the fireplace today. There were a lot of things that I was expecting from today, new hardware was definitely not on that list. Neither was a top 10 finish. Or my running partner winning the women’s race. Or her dad dropping 15 minutes off his [...] I ran my first ever indoor road race today. I imagine it will be one of the only ones as there aren’t too many indoor roads around. It was a very cool experience, the best of both worlds, in a lot of ways. There was no sun or wind to deal with [...] Considering the condition of my foot, running the 10K today was admittedly not a smart decision. Then again, I’ve never claimed to be smart (especially not when it comes to running). The foot actually held up fairly well. Unfortunately, the rest of me didn’t. I missed my P.R. time by almost [...] |
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