The Cure for Pain
Moments ago I was listening to the band Morphine’s ‘Cure for Pain’ and started laughing out loud. I’m about to run my second marathon in under 2 weeks and it seems that I am ‘looking for pain’ not it’s cure.…
Wanna go for a run and get free stuff too?
Anyone want to join us for a run on Tuesday in Central Park? Join me, Erica, Abbe and Zeev from Zensah for a lovely few miles in Central Park on Tuesday, April 24th. We’ll be meeting at the Jack Rabbit…
RACE REPORT: 072 The Boston Marathon – 3:23:41 ‘Total Carnage’
The Boston Marathon or, ‘The Invitational’, as I have so dubbed it took me 3 years to get to. 3:15, 3:13, 3:15, 3:02 (the year Boston sold out in 8 hours) 2:58 and a 3:00 were my times and the…
Meet ‘The Morrighan’
I would like to thank my sponsors, Kompetitive Edge, for building me one of the sickest bikes I have had the honor to ride. Meet the Quintana Roo ‘Illicito’ or as I have named her, ‘The Morrighan’. Why name your…
RACE REPORT: 071 Colon Cancer Challenge 4M – 23:28
Race Season has begun! (for me at least.) It’s officially warm enough to where I can come out of hiding. The Colon Cancer Challenge 4 Miler (not the 15K, do I look crazy? C’mon!) is a race cause that speaks…
Imaginatively Running
My life is a movie, or rather, I pretend I am in a movie during my life. Sometimes it’s a spy movie, sometimes it’s a comedy and frequently when I run it’s an action adventure. Why am I telling you…
The Galway Bay Gallop
What do runners do on St. Patrick’s Day? We integrate beer into our running. Maura (who is from Galway) designed a very fun and difficult race for the Rogue Runners called the Galway Bay Gallop. The race was an out…
Spring-a-ling
Being a February baby, I tend to really dig winter. Snow, ice skating, and not sweating on the way to work. However, I am also an endurance athlete so I have really enjoyed the non-winter aspects of this particular winter.…
Did somebody say Chobani Yogurt?
So I’m on Twitter the other day and a few of my running friends (who am I kidding, all of my friends on Twitter are Runners or Triathletes) were talking about how good Chobani is. Being that most of these…
The New York Hot Dog Challenge
2.5 miles, 1 hour and 10 hot dogs are quite deserving of the word ‘challenge.’ 10 competitors set out to take the challenge and come home with the grand prize of $225. The last few weeks before the race there…