It’s been awhile since I’ve run a race without actually racing it. I used to do it all the time with shorter distances in NYC, just for the sake of enjoying the company of friends and a few thousand other New Yorkers. Yesterday, I did it again for a totally different reason… Although I’ve been doing well with …
Thanks to the Christian calendar, Germany has a lot of holidays in May and June. Last Thursday was one of them: Christi Himmelfaht — which I like to translate as “Jesus’ drive to heaven”, but is more commonly known as Ascension Day. All of that to say, everyone had Thursday free from work. And what should you …
Don’t you love those moments when everything comes together exactly when you need it to? That’s what Sunday’s half marathon in Bonn felt like for me. Although I aimed to beat my fastest time (2:13:06 at the NYC Half Marathon in 2007), I had no idea just how much faster I would be able to …
Well, ok, according to the official results, it actually ended up being a 14.4K race on Sunday. I’m guessing because about three quarters of the route was made up of solid ice and they had to reroute a portion of it. The temperatures (39F/4C) were pretty mild when compared to the sub-freezing temps of the …