Today we headed out to Ridgewood, NJ to race a 5K or 10K. I was undecided and for $10 extra I could register for both (and even run both if I was feeling in a particularly self-hating mood today — which I was, but not to the level required to double). So I registered for [...]
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Summer and fall race planning is in full swing, with training plans to be built around it. Basically, I want to continue to run shorter races, either as full out efforts or to supplement training as either race pace runs or to substitute for speedwork. The fall is going to be all about the half [...]
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My passion project is now live. http://houstonhopefuls.com I hope you’ll enjoy getting to know these impressive women as much as am. I am working feverishly to get additional interviews up in the coming weeks. There is also a Facebook page. And I’ve got business cards on the way. If you would like to promote this [...]
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Well, these past few weeks have certainly been busy. Mileage was low, but punctuated by some interesting workouts and my first ever track race which was less than stellar, through no fault of my own. Around all of this have been heavy duty work demands (on top of my M-F gig, a new freelance client [...]
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As promised, here’s the second report on my journalistic gatecrashing exercise. In this installment, I share what I learned from talking with Khalid Khannouchi and with his wife, Sandra Inoa, who is also his coach and agent. I was so involved in yammering with Patrick Smyth about altitude training that I didn’t notice Khannouchi had [...]
Filed under: central park, coaching, elites, injury, inspiration, racing, recovery, training, westchester | Tagged: khalid khannouchi, nyrr, sandra inoa, sleepy hollow | 10 Comments »
Last night marked another first: my first track race. The venue? Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island. The distance? The mile. The goal? Break six minutes. The reality? Not on this night. Just getting to the stadium was a trial. Google Maps said “18 minutes, 40 in traffic.” I gave us 45. That still wasn’t enough. [...]
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In which I gatecrash a function meant for actual journalists Yesterday marked by first foray into something resembling running journalism. I joined Steve Lastoe, who founded and runs NYCruns.com at the Warwick Hotel in midtown, where we met with several members of the elite field for today’s Healthy Kidney 10K run for a series of [...]
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I spent a pleasant 90 minutes yesterday evening enjoying drinks (for the record, I had water) and nibbles with the majority of my Green Mountain Relay team, plus one interloper/potential spy from the Hash House Harriers’ team (girlfriend of one of our team members, and pretty darned charming — as spies so often are). We [...]
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After 8 months of chemo in 2008, followed by pelvic-tissue-destroying rads and chemo in fall, then pelvis-mostly-removing surgery in spring 2009, I went for my first run since 2005 with my boyfriend’s leggy athletic pothead daughter. It was October 2009. In the past year, I’d been through times when I had almost no platelets, white [...]
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50 mpw seems to be my training “set point” these days. I hope it’s not too much of a shock when I start up higher mileage in the summer. But I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it. This was an eventful week for two reasons. First of all, this week featured the first [...]
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