Category: Race Autoposies
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Race Autopsy: the 2015 New York City Marathon
Race reports are boring for everyone but the runner who writes them. This one is probably no different. Yet when you spend over four hours running around New York City for no goddamn reason, you want to memorialize it somehow. Here’s some thoughts on my day. 4:30 AM We’ll start at the beginning – our […]
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Race Autopsy: Vermont City Marathon
The day started as it always does, with coffee and a crying baby. As E got the little dude dressed, I packed the provisions in the car, chugged a bunch of water, and ate a bagel. Forty minutes later, and forty five minutes before the start, we were pulling into Burlington. I had expected to […]
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Race Autopsy: 2015 Brooklyn Half Marathon
Clearly, I am no Prefontaine. Yet at mile 7 of this weekend’s Brooklyn Half, this quote was going through my mind. I was intentionally holding back, running 9:30s when my body was screaming to run sub 9. It felt silly, and strangely dishonest, I was holding back not to have something in the tank I […]
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Race Autopsy: The Front Runners LGBT Pride 5 Miler
In 1982 when New York Road Runners and Front Runners partnered to host the first ever Front Runners New York LGBT Pride 5 Miler, the world was a very different place. Sodomy laws were still prevalent throughout much of the country; the AIDS crisis was killing the community (and Reagan had still not said it name), […]
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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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Race Recap – Hartford Half Marathon
This hasn’t been my best training cycle, but it hasn’t been my worst, either. I got in a decent number of long runs, and some tempo work but my mileage was never consistently very high. In the two weeks before the Hartford Half Marathon, a niggling ache in my right ankle, and work commitments, kept […]
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Race Autopsy – The Brooklyn Half Marathon
I ran an actual honest to god race a couple of weeks ago. It hurt, but in a good way. It wasn’t the best race of my life, but it was better than expected. In the last couple of years, the Brooklyn Half Marathon has gone from a sleepy outer borough race with a few […]
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Race Autopsy: The 2010 Vermont City Marathon
The synopsis If for some unknown reason you don’t want to read seven hundred words on my running of the Vermont City Marathon here it is in a sentence. I ran VCM in 4:27:16 smashing my previous marathon PR of 5:45. The Lead Up Ah Vermont, the land of Ben and Jerry’s, beautiful vistas and […]
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Race Autopsy: 2006 New York City Triathlon
Originally written for another blog. I haven’t edited this at all since it was published in 2006. Prerace I really underestimated the amount of shit that has to get done before you even start a triathlon. There’s the pre race briefing, where they tell you where everything is, and how the water in the Hudson […]
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Race Autopsy: Lady Libery Open Water Swim
Written years ago for another blog after I DNF’ed the 2006 Lady Liberty Swim 1. Though I am a pretty strong swimmer, I was not prepared an open water wetsuit swim. From the moment I jumped into the water, I couldn’t breath, and was hyperventilating by about halfway through. It wasn’t pretty. I’m not […]
Milo and the Calf 