This week’s training theme: Listening to your body is more important than slavishly holding to a generic schedule. With the exception of the speed intervals on Tuesday — a first! — there was no one run during this week that was anything new or different than I’d done many times before. But, collectively, and perhaps [...]
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When the dog bites, and you can’t find the dog, it’s apparently a big deal. Earlier in the month I was merrily running along and I passed one of the many people walking a dog along the Bronx River Reservation pathway. Unfortunately for me, the dog — a large German shepherd — went nuts as [...]
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It’s official. Running over 90 miles will make a person very, very tired. I ran well enough this morning (and need to do another in an hour), which is bizarre. No leg pain or fatigue whatsoever. But I do feel like slightly fluish and crapola. I wonder if that’s from all the miles. Or maybe [...]
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This week’s training theme: High mileage is only as intimidating as you make it. This week’s report is a twofer: weeks 10 and 11. It’s two…two…two reports in one. Running 12 times a week takes up a lot of time, plus other life and work commitments have beckoned. Week 10 week 10 was notable for [...]
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…you can move on to the running message boards. It truly is possible to spend too much time reading running-related message boards. One of my favorites is Lets Run (“Where your dreams become reality” — uh, okay). It’s more editorially schizophrenic than the Wall Street Journal. On the one hand, you have threads with titles [...]
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This morning was the second of five half marathons in NYRR’s 2008 “Grand Prix” series — and the last of the series we’ll run this year, probably. And what a logistical disaster it was! We woefully misjudged the parking prospects in the Bronx and spent 45 minutes driving farther and farther from the race start, [...]
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Props and a big shoutout to my homies in Alameda, California rapping for Huckabee. Somebody’s gotta give that man some attention in that state. Okay, it’s my darling (and highly enlightened) niece and nephew. This is your brain. This is your brain on home video. Any questions?
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This week’s training theme: Train to race. Not the other way around. Before I begin, a moment of silence to commemorate…the halfway point. I’m halfway through this program and I’ve not died, quit, nor been rendered blind, crippled or insane. Well, I ran a great half marathon a week ago. And I paid for it [...]
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