a weird week
A good weird week, but still a weird one. Routine was a little upside down, but you roll with it. Also, I got excited about…
View Articlewhen you start a post on Sunday morning
and the week is a blur… Oops. All fine, I just have almost no recollection of my runs or anything else. Happy Passover and Happy…
View Articlethree years
ETA: Commenting is broken. Trying to fix. I hate you wordpress. running? No, that was four in January. Three years blogging with all of you after I “met” Coco in the comments of my Cherry Blossom 10M...
View ArticleCommenting is broken
This week’s Weekly Run Down is here. If anyone is really good with WordPress, please ping me.
View Articlethree years
ETA: Commenting is back. Live post from this week is here. Grateful for the backup, but glad to be back here. running? No, that was four in January. Three years blogging with all of you after I “met”...
View Articleand I’m back
turns out all the troubleshooting in the world on the comments wouldn’t have worked since it was a host setting. I love my apartment, I love the city, but there’s just something magical about a porch...
View Articlea sense of community
So glad so many were able to “join” me in the 9/11 Virtual 5K. In honor of the twentieth anniversary, the museum is remembering and celebrating the 9/12 spirit when the world came together. Throughout...
View ArticleFOMO drives races
or at least it does for this runner. Amid the 900 emails that NYRR sends, I saw and read the one for the Women’s Mini, which I have a love/hate relationship with: 2017: one of my first 10Ks 2018:...
View ArticleMAYhem
for as much as “dancing” had to do with my running journey, the two songs somehow that aren’t on my playlists are: The Drifters Save the Last Dance and Shania’s Dance With the One That Brought You. Yet...
View Articlere-integrating running into life, #20BooksOfSummer
that title sounds so dramatic, which it isn’t meant to be, but not sure how else to phrase it. As we move back toward normalcy, whatever that means, post covid-19, the weekend of May 15-16 was my first...
View Articleum, who stole May?
or really who stole 2021? This year is absolutely flying by. Not complaining, I’m just not sure how it is Memorial Day Weekend already. Of course the weather to end the weekend also brought back this...
View ArticleJumping into June head first
but first a little rewind.. My do-nothing Sunday to close last week’s wrap ended up as a nice strength day, which made up for the fact that I literally did not leave my apartment. Haven’t had one of...
View ArticleWomen Run the World, 2021
This title brought to you by a successful return to racing in the form of the 2021 Women’s Mini. Due to the cancellation of the 2021 Frozen Penguin, the Mini is officially the race I’ve run the most:...
View ArticleRace Recap: 2021 Women’s Mini
or as it was actually called this year, the Mastercard Mini 10K. As I mentioned, this is the fourth time I’ve run this race-making it my most-run race along with Frozen Penguin, with Gridiron and Ted...
View Articlesunsets, twinkies and speakeasies
I love running, and running was so much better this weeek since it cooled the hell off, but still always true. Finally looked in the swag bag from Saturday. Well worth the race fee, never mind the...
View Articlesunscreen and bug spray
This was a wonderfully crazy week. Also a reminder that I need to stick with morning exercise as social life goes back to “normal”. But before I get to the run down, a little bit of a race recap that...
View ArticleJumping into July
That’s all I have to say about the weather, especially as I’m quite lucky compared to those in the Pacific North West. It was miserable here, but not unsafe. To those of you who can run happily in...
View ArticleRace Recap: NYCRuns’ Firecracker 10K
I’ve been to Governors Island a few times for work and fun, but had never run on the island. I was watching the weather in 2017, but from a vague recollection-it had sold out before I could register....
View Article15 Years. 15K
Although with the heat this week, there wasn’t always the energy to run the 10K either. Those mornings when I set the alarm for a time I didn’t know existed to go out for a run helped me through some...
View Articlemuseums and miles and more
this belongs in either runfessions or coffee talk, but the odds of my getting a post together for those? About as good as waiting for the library hold on the new Daniel Silva — I made it five days and...
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