Back to the East River

For the first time in over four months, I ran today just for the fun of it and not because it was part of my marathon training schedule. It felt great! I appreciate the level of fitness that the rigid schedule helped me achieve, but it is so nice to be done with [...]

How Not to Recover From a 20 Mile Run

I feel like shit right now. My chest is so tight and my sinuses are still congested and my legs ache and I keep coughing up this horrible, disgusting stuff that I haven’t coughed up since I quit smoking (and which was a big part of the reason I quit in the first place.) I [...]