Tag: marathon
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Friday Inspiration: Galen to the Marathon
With Ryan Hall’s retirement, the U.S. lost one of its few truly great marathoners. But this week, news arrived that Galen Rupp will be trying his luck at the marathon this year. Its too early to tell if Rupp will be the next Meb or Hall*, but I’m excited to watch him race. Here he…
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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…
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Taper Madness
Dear Internet, I am going insane. Also everything hurt. I’ve been told that it isn’t uncommon to get all kinds of aches and pains during the taper period, but man, this is ridiculous. My shins have been aching, my foot is aching and, well, I just feel like I am falling apart. I’m getting out…
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Training Totals 5.9.2010
RECAP: 48 miles is a lot of running. Its Tuesday and I am still exhausted. But now its taper time and man am I looking forward to it. Saturday’s long run started off great, for the first fifteen miles or so, I felt strong and fast. I Rahm Emanuel, I kept a good pace and…
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Training Totals 5.2.2010
RECAP: Not every week can be great. Sometimes, the body just needs a break, and this week was one of those weeks. Even though I decided to cut my long run down from 18 to 15 miles, I still feel ok about this week. My left foot which was giving me a lot of trouble…
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Training Totals
RECAP: I think I need to face up to the fact that for right now, as long as I am getting in my scheduled runs, I should really be too upset about not hitting my total workout time goals. Work is busy, I travel every weekend, and really, all that is important to me right…
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Training Totals: 4.4.10
RECAP: Well, life got the better of me this week. I was in New York for Passover for part of the week and then in Connecticut for Easter for the other part (I’m in an interfaith relationship, the spring gets complicated). I made my running goals for the week, but little else, and fell far…
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Friday Inspiration
So, I have another fifteen miler planned for this weekend. I’ll be doing it on Saturday on the back roads near my parents house in Connecticut. I feel much more confident about this week than I did about last week, but not as confident as Haile Gebrsellassi looks in this video winning the Berlin marathon…
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New York Marathon
Congratulations to Lindsay from Chasing the Kenyans setting a new PR in 3:33:02 Derartu Tulu winning the women’s division in 2:28:52 Meb Keflezighi becoming the first American in 27 years to win the NYC marathon, finishing in 2:09:15 I am especially moved by Meb’s performance. The American running media has expended gallons of ink on…
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Not this year.
Thank you for applying for the ING New York City Marathon 2009. Unfortunately, you were not selected in the lottery drawing. Please understand that we have to limit the size of the field to ensure a top-quality experience. Well, that’s that. I am not running New York this year, looks like I’ll be doing the…
Milo and the Calf 