Today I raced the inaugural Flushing Meadows 5K race in Corona Park, Queens. The park was the site of two world’s fairs (1939 and 1964), and it contains very large, and very visually striking, vestiges of at least one of them. I’m too lazy to research more than that. This is a blog, people. The [...]
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Last week was on the lighter side due to two very late nights and a violent 24 hours or so of back spasm. I returned to the Rockies on Sunday for another tempo session around Swan Lake. But I was not feeling the love this week. It was windy and I just seemed slow. I [...]
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Not only did I have an exceptionally good race experience at the Fifth Avenue Mile this year, but I also had a great experience as a media person. Interviewing the runners Once again I’m reminded that, while the lack of interest in professional track and field in this country can be dismaying at times, the [...]
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Joe did a recent tour of Mount Vernon’s track. Here’s my travelogue of the Edgemont High School track.
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Just a quickie post, and one without a visual of the week’s training. My training log is on Jonathan’s computer, which is two states to the east in a house that has no power, thanks to Hurricane Irene. It was a nothing week for training anyway. I probably ran in the neighborhood of 20 miles [...]
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Oh, man. I hope I made someone happy today: “weight reduction at 46 years of age”
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We’ve been told for years that there are two types of runners: “slow twitch” and “fast twitch.” But those are just references to muscle fibers. What about runners’ heads and attitudes? Blogger Cris of Well. I’m TRYING to run… theorizes that, once we move into the mental realm, there are actually three types of us [...]
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“germam fuck legs” What a coincidence — that’s what I’m making for dinner!
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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 52,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj [...]
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Yeah, right. I don’t think so. I’m just happy to have gotten out of 2010 alive. Happy New Year!
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