Running as Catharsis

I was originally planning on taking an extra day off today. My foot has still been giving me a lot of pain and I figured the extra rest would probably do more good than harm. Plans changed. I had an unbelievably shitty day — one of those days where you would just [...]

2009 Homecoming Scotland Run 10K

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 [...]

More Rain

I’m usually not one to complain about the weather, but this little bout of rain has really gotten to me. First of all, I want it to be snow and not rain. It has snowed for a total of about three-and-a-half minutes so far this year here in the city and that’s just [...]

Rain

This weather is just weird — I can’t believe how warm it was today. I was out running in shorts and a t-shirt and wasn’t chilly at all (I did have my gloves on though because my hands are always freezing.) We canceled Intervals Wednesday after seeing the forecast and realizing that running [...]

Raindrops

They don’t get any better than this. Perfect weather, relatively little pain, and lots of speed. It didn’t happen as planned though… When I woke up this morning, I just had this feeling that today was not the day for the George Washington Bridge run to happen. Maybe it was the fact [...]