What happens when the race of your life is your life? You get something like Endure: Run. Woman. Show., a 360-degree meditation on marathoning as metaphor. Melanie Jones, the creative force behind this immersive theatre piece, which takes place in Prospect Park and its immediate environs, found me through the miracle of Google and invited [...]
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[That's "happy trails" in Norwegian, at least according to Google Translate] What can you say about Grete Waitz? She was not only an inspiring talent, but she was one of running’s greatest ambassadors. There is a huge hole left in the world of running today. I will keep the bloviations to a minimum. That’ll be [...]
Filed under: elites, inspiration, movies, ny harriers | Tagged: fred lebow, grete waitz, mini 10K, new york marathon, nyrr | Leave a Comment »
For once, I called something correctly in a marathon. While I didn’t predict that Desiree Davila would come in second, I did say to Jonathan, right before the gun went off for the women’s race, “I think Davila is going to wipe the floor with Goucher today.” I will not go into why I thought [...]
Filed under: eating, inspiration, racing | Tagged: boston marathon 2011, caroline kilel, desiree davila, kara goucher, kim smith, sharon cherop | 30 Comments »
Sally Meyerhoff, one of this country’s fastest female marathoners, died yesterday. I never interviewed or met her, although I was hoping she’d be running the More Half again this year (which she won last year while setting a new course record, in pouring rain no less), so that I might have a chance to. Meyerhoff [...]
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Why am I writing about a cyclist? Because this post is as much an appeal for help from New York’s athletic community as it is a fascinating human interest story. Damian Lopez-Alfonso, 34, is a Cuban athlete with considerable athletic achievements — ones that are made all the more impressive by the fact that he [...]
Filed under: elites, inspiration | Tagged: achilles international, achilles track club, cuba, cycling, damian lopez-alfonso, fuji bicycles, nyu | 1 Comment »
Lori Kingsley is fast enough to have regularly rubbed shoulders with (and been lent hotel room showers by) marathoning’s professional elites. She wins a lot of races. She likes to play dress up. And she describes herself as “a happy runner.” This one took awhile to post, but I think it was worth the wait. [...]
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Next week on Monday, January 24th at 7PM ET I’ll be hosting an edition of The Runners Round Table on the subject of eating disorders and exercise addiction among runners. My guests include three runners who are distinguished not only by their athletic accomplishments, but also by their having overcome these problems and — beyond [...]
Filed under: elites, inspiration, podcast, resources | Tagged: anorexia, bulimia, eating disorders, exercise addiction, runners round table | 4 Comments »
After taking four full days off from running, not because there was anything wrong but because I was so frigging busy with window/masonry guys and then giving or throwing away about 75% of our possessions, I ran today. At the gym. This was a first. Jonathan had his inaugural post-foot procedure elliptical session. He has [...]
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It’s a Saturday morning in September and for the last hour I’ve been staring at the back of Khalid Khannouchi’s head. We’re being coached through a workout in the deep end of a 25m pool in Briarcliff, New York. Directing us is Sandra Khannouchi, Khalid’s coach, manager and wife of over 14 years. She’s in [...]
Filed under: coaching, eating, elites, everyday life, injury, inspiration, olympics, racing, strength training, training | Tagged: dathan ritzenhein, haile gebrselassie, khalid khannouchi, meb keflezighi, paul tergat, sandra khannouchi | 15 Comments »
I have a giant list of writing-related project to dos (plus some podcast prep stuff). But most of them are so daunting. I haven’t got it in me today. This fucking head cold is still here. It abated for a bit last night, but it’s back with a vengeance this morning. I spent three hours [...]
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