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challenge

• September 5th, 2010
• Posted in Brooklyn . Exercise . Feeling Happy . Food . New York . Team In Training

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:

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marathon training update – August

• August 29th, 2010
• Posted in Exercise . Friends . New York . Team In Training

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:

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Battle of Brooklyn

• August 22nd, 2010
• Posted in Exercise . Health . New York . Team In Training

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:

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is this a marathon or social time?

• August 18th, 2010
• Posted in Exercise . New York . Photos . Team In Training . Thinking

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:

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one half marathon down…

• August 15th, 2010
• Posted in Exercise . Feeling Happy . Friends . New York . Team In Training

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:

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back in the groove

• August 2nd, 2010
• Posted in Brooklyn . Exercise . Friends . Health . New York . Team In Training

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:

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party time. excellent.

• July 18th, 2010
• Posted in Brooklyn . Friends . Home . New York . Team In Training

I have been threatening for over a year to have a party/open house at our “new” New York apartment, but the time just never seemed right… until yesterday. Travis and I finally invited our friends over for what I deemed our “Party in Park Slope.” Sounds pretty wild, right? It turned out to be a [...] Related posts:

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Central Park road race

• June 26th, 2010
• Posted in Exercise . Health . New York . Team In Training

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:

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found!

• June 21st, 2010
• Posted in Exercise . Photos . Team In Training

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 ]

Team In Training update

• June 19th, 2010
• Posted in Exercise . Feeling Happy . Health . Team In Training

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 ]