Have you been to Montreal? If not, please go. It’s a very cool city. I’ve recently been a little sick of running the New York City Marathon. I mean, it’s the best marathon, it’s just repetitive at this point. Of…
A very good friend of mine (unfortunately) moved back to his home country of Sweden in 2017. I had visited him soon after for the Gothenburg Half Marathon and then came a 4 year long global pandemic. So I hadn’t…
Remember this winter? It was freezing all the time! I ran sporadically and very inconsistently because of my lack of warm weather motivation. Until March, when I realized that I probably needed to up my training into the double digit…
MARATHON 25 For me, the New York City Marathon is what started it all… running it on a dare from the CEO of Rolex in 2008. It changed my life. Running the New York City Marathon is hard, it’s a…
Abbott, the sponsor of the World Marathon Majors emailed me in late May asking if I wanted to go for my 4th Star in Berlin. I registered immediately. THE ROAD TO RECOVERY One week before the New York City Marathon…
IS THIS THING ON? The thing about running is that without a plan, you’re just running to run…there’s no structure to anything. When I’m running without an assignment I’m like a rogue operative operating aimlessly… but if you assign me…
I always do this. I run a race and when it comes time to sign up for it again I hesitate – thinking I’d be sick of it. Then, I go running with all my friends who are like “Woo…
The New York City Marathon is New York’s biggest all-day block party. I think they estimate that upwards of 2 million people come out to cheer. When it was confirmed that it would take place in 2021, I wanted in. …
BACK TO RACING We were and still are in a pandemic and things have been far from normal for a very long time. One of the things that changed or stopped rather, was racing. How can you justify gathering thousands…
‘The Marathon’ This year would mark the 50th Anniversary of the notorious New York City Marathon. The running community everywhere, especially us New Yorkers, were pumped. But… There is a global pandemic happening and so pretty much Earth was put…