taper and recovery
with a Florida vacation making up much of the latter. It was a delightful disconnect with no laptop, but I’ll have my race recap up soon. GoTheDist February 2022: 378,460 steps 177.52 miles run/walked...
View Articlethe things on my feet
alternate title, the last line from last week: Oh hello March you wonderful gremlin you. Or, stolen from one of Coco’s comments, Marchuary. The boots weren’t needed for accumulation, but warmth as I...
View Article#TuesdayTopics: Race Recap: NYC Runs Central Park Half Marathon
as you can tell, I had absolutely no fun at all and did not remotely hit my goal of finishing smiling 😉 This was fun, but can someone lop off a few of the hills in the Park? Linking up with Kim and...
View ArticleSpring in my step
Yes, I think this might actually be spring, not false spring, second wintering, etc. Mother Nature seems to think so as everything is blooming even after last weekend’s deep freeze. Even as someone...
View ArticleSpring Fling
Throughout COVID we heard running isn’t cancelled, which was very true. And it’s not even my return to racing-but NYCRuns’ Spring Fling just made me feel normal. Not a full race recap as the course,...
View Article“Recovery” Week
if by recovery you mean back to back runs, a bike ride and two ten mile runs. Oops. That’s one way to do peak Half training week. Cherry Blossom recap still to come, but short version: awesome weekend...
View ArticleRace Recap: Cherry Blossom 10M 2022
I mean, how could I not do a recap of this race, which is the reason I joined this linkup after Coco organized a race linkup when she was an Ambassador. Happy four years to knowing all of you <3...
View Article2022 Taper 2.0
well after you have an over the top crazy week with a lingering sore spot err, spots. What happens? Yep. But I kept running although dropped it way lower than a typical taper because none of it hurt...
View ArticleRace Recap: 2022 Brooklyn Half Marathon
I had no goals for this race and never care about place, but when I saw him later on an out and back at mile eleven or so, I just knew that I was not going to lose to a banana! In fall 2021, I had...
View Articleanother multi week update
Because work has been utterly, wonderfully chaotic. I was meeting a colleague at the Lortel Awards and she asked what I was wearing so she could be sure not to over or under dress and well, this was...
View Articlemotoring through May
before I get into the week, a moment to think of David Reichman who died after crossing the finish of the Brooklyn Half Saturday. 32 is way too young. Not a race director or medical person, so I have...
View Articlenearly June
Welcome back Fleet Week! New York City isn’t a big military town despite Military Island, but there’s something magical about these giant ships joining Intrepid at the piers. I wasn’t able to make it...
View ArticleRunning and reading 2022 edition
It was a good week and so much fun to run “with” all of you. By my count we had nine states, six time zones and four countries represented. We absolutely nailed the “global” piece of it and had two...
View ArticleRace Recap: 2022 NYRR Mini 10K
or Women’s Mini, or Mastercard Mini. I’ve run this five! times and I’m pretty sure it has had five names. I call him that, but I was already at bib pickup. I’m still crediting him because he’s cute,...
View ArticleCelebrating and running
The highlight of a good week. This has been the reason so many office run groups have been noted as a schedule conflict. But it all paid off as the NY/NJ bid moved forward as a host city for 2026. So...
View ArticleCycling Cari?
crosstraining Cari? However you want to call it, a fun thing happened this week. I was on Roosevelt Island Sunday and wanted to go to the northern tip to see the renovated lighthouse and new Nellie Bly...
View Article2022 is half gone
for as much as I thought January-May were fairly slow, I blinked and missed June. My running cutback lasted exactly May as I realized on Thursday morning that I was within spitting distance of a...
View Articleew, summer running
I think it was two years ago I joked we’d all be making the same weather post. But once again, we’re all cooking. Stay safe everyone. I’m not doing a minute by minute of the last two weeks since they...
View Articlesummer continues
also, this was absolutely spot on for this week’s weather. I blinked and missed July. Wasn’t it just July 4th? Not complaining at all as I’m eager for fall weather, but hello time warp. A fast July...
View ArticleRace Recap: Juneau Half Marathon
Original intro, and then this post got delayed three weeks: no point in a weekly run down since I barely ran in Alaska. Nothing wrong, conscious decision to focus on hiking on top of half marathon...
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