Tag: hurricane sandy

  • More Thoughts on the Marathon

    UPDATE: The Marathon has been canceled or postponed.  Who knows.  This was probably the right decision.  The level of vitriol that was being heaped on NYRR and the running community was extreme.  Now let’s see if the New York Post will try to get the Giants game canceled.  I am rethinking the post below about…

  • Some Thoughts on This Years New York City Marathon

    So it looks like the New York Marathon is on.  I am of two minds about this.  I love the New York Marathon, more than a race it is a celebration of New York with tens of thousands of runners and hundreds of thousands of spectators.  If I’m not running it, I always go out…

  • A Post Hurricane Run

    I am lucky enough to live in a neighborhood in Brooklyn called Prospect Heights.  Heights is in the name for a reason- we’re on relatively high ground and far outside the evacuations zones.  All we saw from Hurricane Sandy were a couple of downed trees and some blown over signs.  We were very, very lucky. …