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This post is based on the blogging prompt “What is the biggest challenge you’ve faced in the past year?” from IndieBizChicks’ September Blogging Special. Isn’t this view of the Brooklyn Bridge awesome? I think this photo is a good representation of the challenges I have faced over the last year as I have been trying [...] Related posts:finally! some great NY pizza! marathon training update – August back in the groove [ READ MORE ]
Yesterday I had an enjoyable morning completing a 2.5 hour long run with my Team in Training. Enjoyable, you ask? Yes, it really was fun. We ran over the George Washington Bridge and then through the Palisades Park in New Jersey along the Hudson River. For most of the run I hung out with my [...] Related posts:Team In Training update is this a marathon or social time? one half marathon down… [ READ MORE ]
Despite my crazy-person smile seen in the photo above, today’s “Battle of Brooklyn” 10 mile race in Prospect Park was killer. I think it may have been my worst long run of the season, and I have only myself to blame. Travis and I took a lovely trip to Rhinebeck yesterday for our friend, Sarah’s, [...] Related posts:Central Park road race one half marathon down… not much to say [ READ MORE ]
At Team in Training practice my coaches are often telling me, “if you can carry on a conversation you aren’t working at a hard effort.” I usually nod my head, keep running and talking, and then come home to Travis and complain that I try to work at “hard effort” but I just love the [...] Related posts:NYC Marathon here I come! found! back in the groove [ READ MORE ]
I must admit, I am proud of myself today. I completed the Bronx Half Marathon, and it wasn’t even that bad! I have run the 13.1 mile distance in the (long ago) past — you can see my results from the 2000 Drake Relays Half here under Rachel Lamble — but today’s race was my [...] Related posts:Central Park road race NYC Marathon here I come! back in the groove [ READ MORE ]
Above is a photo of my Team In Training group in the ocean at Coney Island last Saturday. (I’m smack dab in the middle in the white tank top.) That run was so much fun and also a big accomplishment for many of us. We did our long run and ended it at the beach [...] Related posts:Central Park road race Team In Training update NYC Marathon here I come! [ READ MORE ]
My marathon training is still in the beginning stages, with fairly low mileage runs and lots of cross training, but tomorrow the team (the Brooklyn LLS Team In Training) is participating in our first organized road race of the season. We will be running the 5-mile Achilles Hope & Possibility Run in Central Park. The [...] Related posts:Team In Training update NYC Marathon here I come! not much to say [ READ MORE ]
While doing some research for my Team In Training fundraising letter, I came across some old photos from when I was training for my first marathon 10 years ago. Most of the photos are stills from video Travis took at some of my practice races. (He had just bought a new video camera and we [...][ READ MORE ]
Whew. I just completed my first 5 mile run of the season at this morning’s Team In Traning group run in Prospect Park. (This is a photo of me after the run doing some stretching. I look like a dweeb, but I don’t mind.) It was actually much more doable than I was expecting. Before [...][ READ MORE ]
I am a terrible athlete. Absolutely terrible. I can’t throw or catch a ball, bench press 100 lbs, do a yoga handstand, or even run very fast… but that didn’t prevent me from joining the cross country team in high school. Ever since then, running has been the most effective form of exercise for me. [...][ READ MORE ]