I just spent an hour trying to get to work in a 100-degree train station and on a train without A/C, because I depend on a train system that becomes INCAPACITATED every time it rains. How incapacitated, you ask? Check out the advisory below. That leaves maybe one or two train lines running for the …
Category: New York City
Race Report: NYC Half Marathon
As we were standing in the race corrals early Sunday morning, I remarked to my friends, “You know, I have a good feeling about this race.” And why not? I’d accomplished all my training goals (which I’ve painstakingly laid out for you in this blog, whether you liked it or not) over the past ten …
Week Ten
I’m a little too worn out after today’s hot and humid 11-mile run to write very coherently about it. Suffice it to say, we all finished, but that’s about it. I was soaked straight through with sweat. It’s quite rare that my entire shirt is drenched, but today was one of those days of 80% …
Week Nine
I wasn’t so great about waking up early this week to run, and somehow only managed to do a 5-mile run on Tuesday morning and a 4.5-mile run on Friday evening. I’m frustrated that I wasn’t able to get it together to do my speed work, but will try harder to fit it in next …