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…
It’s been a LOOOOONG winter. While we’re not getting hit as hard as Boston, NYC has been pretty miserable. I’ve not been the most, shall we say motivated? person when it comes to donning a pair of kicks and heading out to the park to run in circles for hours. At this point of the…
I think we can all agree that treadmill running is kinda awful. I mean, there’s a reason we call it the Dread Mill. But what if you were to run on one outside? And what if that “outside” was in the middle of Times Square? You’d be into it, right? So when I was given…
I’ve done my share of shoe reviews on this blog. It’s kind of a no brainer for shoe companies to contact me and ask my opinion given the name of my blog. Usually what happens is I get contacted, agree to review the product (or not), wear the shoes for a day around the city…
Post Marathon Blues So you’ve spent the last 18 weeks of your life preparing for and training to run 26.2 miles. It’s all you talked about with you friends and family, you changed your eating habits, you changed your social life, you woke up earlier on the weekends than you do on weekdays to get…
Last Sunday I ran my seventh NYC Marathon. My 7th marathon in my home town. I can easily remember going to Central Park on Marathon Sunday, standing there watching in awe of the runners going past the 72nd Street Transverse. I had mixed emotions. At once I was impressed by the display of endurance, tenacity…
