Bronx 10-miler Race Report
10-mile races aren’t common, but the two I get to run each year are among my favorites. Today was my second try at the Bronx 10-miler, one of the New York Road Runners’ Five Borough Series races. The Context One …
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Mind of a Runner: What I’m reading and listening to this week
Because I’m, well, me, I’ve been reading and listening to a lot of things about running, and I figured it would be helpful to collect them in one place for my own reference and to share the most useful information …
Cranky knees and a lifetime of running
My knee finally — finally! — feels normal again after a week where it ranged from downright painful to just not quite right. There’s no one reason it was acting up, and no one solution for fixing it. Just a …
Brooklyn R-U-N 5K race report
After I signed up for the Mini 10K, I realized that gave me seven NYRR races for the year, so I could pretty easily do the 9+1 challenge again. As it turned out, Coach B set me up to run …
My road to NYC 2018 officially begins
After 18 months of preparation for running the TCS NYC Marathon before my training cycle would even start, it’s a little weird to realize that this week was the first week of my actual training plan. I had a lot of …
Queens 10K race report
Three races in five weeks that also include a family wedding out of state and a week-long cold mean I’m wicked backed up on race reports. But now that marathon training has started, I need to clear the decks, so …
Mini 10K race report
I’d never done a women-only race before, and NYRR’s Shape Half-Marathon is typically Boston Marathon weekend. So when I saw this on the calendar, I asked Coach B if I could do it if I used it as a training …
Brooklyn Half Race Report
Two weeks is a long time to go before getting my race report down on paper, but this one needed some extra time to sort itself out in my head — and my nose. (And then apparently another month to …
Broad Street Run race report
Broad Street is the race I’ve run the most times, and it’s always one of my favorite race weekends of the year because of the people. I run with a few dozen other people, mostly Subbers, on an American Cancer …
Deena Kastor, mental training and my Big, Hairy Audacious Goal
Junior year of high school, about the time I quit outdoor track because I was injured so much that it had sucked the fun out running, the BAA announced that for the centennial Boston Marathon in 1996, they would allow …
