Helen and I trekked up to the Bronx on Thursday after work to race in VCTC’s Summer X-C Relay. It was worth the trip. The race was fun and we won some muffins. We ran as Team Eh, a tribute to our neighborhood (think acronym).
The course was similar to the 5K course, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]