Staten Island Half 2018 race report
Staten Island Half is the final Five Borough race of the year, and it wasn’t originally on my schedule. Until, that is, Coach B told me I needed to run a dress rehearsal half that day as part of my …
Running Toward NYC 2018
Mental vs. physical training
This was a lousy training week. There’s no way to sugarcoat it. Coming off a good test run at the Bronx 10-miler, this was wicked frustrating. Why so bad? Some of it was not running-related at all. Working in a …
Mind of a Runner: Confidence journals, mental training and tips to achieve your goals
Thursday marked one month until my first marathon, and that’s shaping my reading and listening these days. Still, even non-marathoners should find some interesting tidbits in this week’s collection of food for thought. Bookshelf “Strong: A Runner’s Guide to Boosting …
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 …
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 …
United NYC Half 2018 race report — aka the adventures of Corral L(ost)
Sunday was the first NYC Half on the new course. I had the best training cycle so far headed into it. No KT Tape needed, hit my workouts the way I wanted to, had a plan to run the new …
