I love the week leading up to the NYC Marathon and it only gets better on Thursday, the day the Expo opens and 50,000 people filter through the convention center to pick up their race credentials, buy running gear and gawk at all the new shiny new gear they want from vendors. It’s like the…
This past Friday night, I set my alarm for an ungodly hour, fed myself a carbohydrate-rich meal and closed my eyes earlier than a 45 year old man should. Why? Well, for the seventh year in a row, I was signed up for the Brooklyn Half, the largest 13.1 in the United States! I love…
Last night, I was conspicuously clean shaven and wearing a baseball hat while surrounded by skinny jeans and beards that would make a Lumberjack jealous. Why? I’ve been hearing about the Red Hook Crit for as long as I can remember, a bad ass bike race in Brooklyn that draws participants from all over the…
I used to scoff at this race. It’s a 5K. I mean, who cares right? It’s not even worth getting my clothes sweaty to go out and run 3.11 miles. Then we had a baby and everything changed. I ran this race today for the third time. At this point in the year I’m usually close…
I’ve been enamored with Hood to Coast since I first started running back in 2007. And when the documentary came out a few years ago it only fueled the fire. I was intrigued by the whole relay race concept, I’ve been in love with the Pacific Northwest for years and Oregon was the only state…
It was bound to happen. In fact I’m kinda surprised it took until my 12th full marathon to show its face. But there it was, mile 15 of the New Jersey Marathon. I was confronted with the fact that I has lost respect for the marathon distance and toyed with dropping out of the race. I’m not sure…
Where do I begin? The Expo? The weather? The new course? The fact that this is one of my two absolute favorite 13.1 races of the year? Or the fact that I took more than three minutes (3:02 to be exact) off my 13.1 PR? No matter where I start my review the end is…
Yeah I said it and I’ll say it again, sometimes running sucks. Yesterday was one such day. My first 13.1 of the year (the 6th anniversary of my first) plus the height of the second Polar Vortex of 2014 does not make for a fun day of running. I woke up skeptical that I would…
Today was my first race of the year for me – welcome to 2014. A classic race, the New York Road Runner’s Joe Kleinerman 10K is a full loop around Central Park and today did not let down. Here’s what’s crazy about running in NYC in January. Last Tuesday it was the coldest day in…
A few weeks ago I sent out an email to 20 people asking them to join me in my inaugural NYCRUNS race. The burgeoning race organization has been getting some great press in NYC and I’ve been wanting to run one of their races to see how well they are organized. This morning, 647 hearty…
