This morning in Central Park, Suzanne and I ran the Naples to New York Park to Park 10K. We also ran 1 mile before the race and 2 miles afterwards, to make sure we got in our 9-mile run for the week. It was gorgeous weather and low humidity, so we pretty much breezed through …
Category: Race Reports
Race Report: New York Mini 10K
Back in 1972, the New York Mini 10K was the first women’s only road race. It was founded in part by Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to officially enter and run the Boston Marathon. She was able to enter that race in 1967 only because of an oversight on the entry form — there was …
Race Report: Brooklyn Half-Marathon
I ran my last half-marathon in July 2004, and descended into a summer of physical therapy afterwards to tame my rebellious IT band. My physical therapist had me stop running for close to two months, and I gradually built my mileage back up again once he had massaged and stretched my IT band back into …
Relay & Travels
Yesterday the Avon Need for Speed Relay was a sucess! I ran with a team of colleagues we finished the 60-mile course from Bear Mountain to New Rochelle in Westchester County in about 9 hours — definitely not a world record, but it was a lot of fun anyway. My leg was slotted as a 5.3 …