Taper Town 2023
With yesterday’s Saturday’s 11 mile run, I am officially tapering. Two weeks from this writing, I will be done with the NYC Half Marathon. With the exception of the Manhattan Bridge when I ran to...
View ArticleGoals for the 2023 NYC Half
With Saturday’s 8 miler-the long run from last week in order to taper-the long runs for NYC Half training are done. Linking up with Deborah and Kim for some thoughts on that and a quick look at this...
View ArticleRecap: 2023 NYC Half Marathon
I runfess that this isn’t my favorite race, but the marquee NYC races always bring folks to the city and seeing people is most definitely my favorite. Linking up with Kim and Deborah and sharing link...
View Articlepeeking back in
I was all set to post my Cherry Blossom recap for this week’s run down, but…. that’s not done. Also in the queue, reviews of both Des Linden and Kara Goucher’s amazing books. I said somewhere that I...
View ArticleCari Reads: Des Linden and Kara Goucher
It has been a good last twelve months for running reads: Molly Huddle and Sara Slattery’s How She Did It, Lauren Fleshman’s Good for a Girl, Alison Mariela Desir’s Running While Black in fall 2022 and...
View ArticleWeekly Run Down, 4/15-23
So I’m technically 10K training, but my running/schedule was all over the place this week so it didn’t feel like it. Linking up with Deborah and Kim to look at the week that was. never miss a Monday: I...
View ArticleRace Recap: Bolder Boulder 10K
I was all set to get back into a running/weekly rundown routine, and then the Canadian fires smoke ate NYC. I could have run, but I mostly opted not to. It didn’t feel good the one day I did, and...
View ArticleGetting back into running
Not that I stopped – more on that in the half year recap – but the first half of the year has been weird, running wise. I started to feel the itch to run more again when I got back from my trip and...
View Article2023: Halfway Point
Linking up with Deborah and Kim for a look back at the year so far. Yep, this is another overdue post despite starting it a month ago. Seems to be my theme! On June 11 I realized I was way behind in my...
View ArticleI gave up
no… not running. July has been decently back on track. It was worse when I woke, but I apparently deleted the screenshot it was so horrifying. But I gave up melting for no good reason and re-joined the...
View ArticleSunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat
and I’m pleased to say, I found the pot of gold: overnight temperatures below 70! This week was a blessing after it being brutal everywhere and I hope you’re all staying safe. The Con Edison emails...
View Articlefrom Stowe to PokemonGo
I am not super familiar with Pokemon Go, but I remember when it was A Thing a few years ago. I didn’t realize that was still true, so I was taken very much by surprise when I ran into Go Fest on what’s...
View ArticleRunning out of August
Five years ago this week, Liz and I got to run together in person. In subsequent years we’ve occasionally managed to run at the same time, at the same clock time in our respective time zones or the...
View ArticleTravel Tuesday: Italia!
I don’t even know where to start with this absolutely magical trip I just came home from. Yes, there was a good reason I was MIA, not just my usual blogging inconsistency. 😀 This is as much for me for...
View ArticleBronx 10 Miler, Tunnel to Towers and time with friends
If you missed it – and I don’t blame you, because it was a #TravelTuesday on a Friday!, I posted about my trip to Italy. Linking up with Kim and Deborah for a Weekly-ish Run Down: ETA: missed the...
View ArticleQ4 races and a little Halloween fun
I runfess that this is one of many half started posts from the last few weeks, but the meat of it remains true so I’m rolling with it. Running is happening but I find myself struggling with anything to...
View ArticleGrateful
Original subject lines: Dual city runs and museums Tri city runs and museums See I do try to post even when it doesn’t ultimately happen. I swear there was running, even if it wasn’t explicitly worth...
View ArticleRace Recaps: Ted Corbitt 15K and Big Apple 5K
because they were basically the only running of the last two three weeks… Linking up with Kim and Deborah. Happy belated Hanukkah to all who celebrate (Yes, this was supposed to post last week) I...
View Article7 Years Running
one hell of a way to celebrate the new year. Happy runversary to me! Weekly Run Down and celebration of running with Kim and Deborah, but so grateful to have each and every one of you in my life...
View ArticleFeeling Good
I am SO tired of gyms pushing skinny, especially since that was way more to do with diet. And there’s nothing wrong with skinny — it frequently is what “feeling good” is, but that’s so limiting a...
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