Category: I Run New York
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Chtcheglov’s Formulary for a New Urbanism
Formulary for a New Urbanism is the urtext of the concept of pyschogeography. It was written by Ivan Chtcheglov under the pseudonym Gilles Ivain in 1953 when he was all of 19 years old. Chtcheglov struggled with mental health issues and was actually in a mental hospital when Formulary was first published in the first issue…
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12 Thoughts On the New York Marathon Course
This past weekend, I ran the last twenty miles of the New York Marathon course, from Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn to the finish line in Central Park. Here are thirteen things about the course. Some I remember from the last time I ran this race ten year ago and some I remembered during my run…
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The Brooklyn Half Marathon Preparty and the Dueling Cliches of Being an Aging Man in a Transforming Borough
Last night, after I went to pick up my bib for the Brooklyn Half Marathon, I posted this on Instagram: Is there any greater sign that a man has become old then complaining about a party? Probably not. But something about the contrived Brookly-ness of the Brooklyn Half Pre Party really gets to me. In…
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Bridges Project: The Pulaski and the Queensboro
Every time I head out, this bridge project gets just a little but harder. The Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges were an easy couple of miles from my home. So were the Gowanus Bridges. The Williamsburg was just a little bit further, but well within my running comfort zone. Now that I’m starting to go a…
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On Running Everyday
Yesterday was a tough one. Monday night, the little dude refused to sleep. He woke up at midnight, and again at three, and again at four thirty. Object permanence, they say. When my alarm went off at 5, instead of getting in a quick mile before heading out to travel to D.C., I hit snooze.…
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The Long Run: Two Bridges the Williamsburg and the Manhattan
Another gorgeous Sunday, another bridge checked off the list. That’s eight down, eighty three to go. The Williamsburg, the Willie-B, the Billyburg – with one end in the Lower East Side and the other in Williamsburg, it is the bridge the unifies hip, young, New York City. Covered in rusting steel latticework, it isn’t…
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The Long Run: Two Bridges — Brooklyn & Manhattan
After a couple of weeks of not running any bridges, this Saturday I was back at it and checked two of the lowest hanging fruit– the Manhattan and the Brooklyn — off my list. That’s seven down, eighty-four to go. Over the years, the Manhattan Bridge has been a staple of my running. I’ve run…
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Race Autopsy: Brooklyn Half Marathon 2014
Unless you’re a pro runner with some writing chops, who runs in exotic locales against the best runners in the world, like Dakota Jones, or Sabrina Moran, odds are your race report is tedious and uninteresting to just about everyone but you. Your mom may say she enjoyed reading it, but she’s lying. Still, race…
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Long Run: The Gowanus Bridges
I’ve written before about my fascination with New York’s waterways and the bridges that cross them and I’ve got a special place in my heart for the Gowanus Canal and the small bridges that cross this polluted little slice of Brooklyn. A couple of weekends ago, I plotted out a 13 miler that crossed all five…
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The Long Run – The Park and the Bridge
I run for many reasons. To stay fit, to stay thin, to sleep at night, to have time to think, to work at the nearly impossible goal of becoming fast, and to explore. Exploration can come in different forms. It can be exploring new trails and road, or seeing old roads in a new way. …
Milo and the Calf 