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The Rise and Fall and (Maybe) Rise of My Running Career, 2011-2012, in 3 Parts; Part 1: Marathon Weekend 24 Jan 2012 | 12:08 pm
Thursday, December 1, 2011 A typical conversation from today: “Why are you going to Florida?” Why indeed? It’s my mother’s 86th birthday, for one thing. And I’m running the Palm Beach Marathon on Sund...
Shot in the Foot = Shot in the Arm 9 Nov 2011 | 11:16 am
I haven’t written recently because there was a time when everything seemed to have gone Wrong. They’d been going quite right, as you can see from my previous post, and they continued to for a while: o...
The Slowest 15-Miler of My Life: So What? 6 Oct 2011 | 01:40 am
I ran the slowest 15-miler of my life 10 days ago. And it was among the best. And I realized that this year has been one in which I acknowledge my age instead of struggling to ignore it. It’s becoming...
Slowing Down to Speed Up 30 Aug 2011 | 10:18 am
Two weeks ago, my friend Lloyd advised me to slow it down. I’d been complaining of a lack of a breakthrough, lousy times, a couple of abandoned runs, the impossibility of getting through the first mil...
Feeling Tough in a Tough Week 26 Jul 2011 | 08:56 am
A very tough week. And yet not a discouraging one. It began with a determined 10-mile run on a bright, sunny morning in the hills of central New York State; right about here. The map, of course, tells...
Two Weeks Hard, One Week Easy 9 Jul 2011 | 08:31 am
When I started running regularly this year, I developed a new theory (to me; no doubt there have been stories about this in Runner's World) about building strength and resting. It's always seemed to m...
The Re-’addiction’ 21 Jun 2011 | 05:52 am
It is happening, the re-“addiction” (I could stop if I wanted to; but I don’t want to), the waking up and throwing on of the running shoes. And what’s so great (for this time of year, for me at least)...
In Which I Remember How to Run… 24 May 2011 | 05:53 am
I look at my running log since March 20—two months ago!—and it’s a sad legacy, a story of three-mile runs, sometimes grouped in threes, just as often with two-week gaps in between, a total—maybe—of 50...
As Winter Tapers Off, Training Ramps Up 8 Mar 2011 | 09:04 am
My half-success in running through this winter has been neither encouraging nor dis-. On the one hand, I ran and I'm not dead. On the other hand, I didn't run much, I only ran long, and sometimes I th...
Long Slump, Short Ribs 1 Feb 2011 | 11:36 am
I ran less in the month of January than any month in the last year except April, when I had bronchitis. There is the snow and cold, of course, but though I use that as an excuse I don't accept … Conti...
