Runner and storyteller
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
