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Continue reading →: 2015 New York City Marathon EXPO pictures
Juan and I went to the expo yesterday, Thursday, to avoid the masses. I always go on Thursdays, it’s less crazy this is post is mostly pictures to give you a break from all the reading! After that, we raced home. I had had a looooooong day at the office, preparing…
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Continue reading →: NYC Marathon Exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York
So, this happened. And it’s probably one of the most exciting exhibits at the Museum of the City of New York since the Sex and the City one. Well for me! Not much to explain, other than saying, just go already! It was quite fun. Check it out! Admissions is through…
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Continue reading →: I probably should have been DQed
So, I’ve been talking to a few people since Sunday’s race, as I’ve been feeling so sore and crappy… I had never had cramps before and I had no idea what was happening. For what I am piecing together now, I ODed (that’s my husband’s term) on caffeine. I was…
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Continue reading →: Race Report: Staten Island Half. Oooops.
Hey friends! Wow. this half was a MEGA-MESS and I should have known better. I was a dehydrated overovercaffeinated mess and I paid hard for that…. Let me get to it. As you know, all year I wanted to PR at the Half but my hopes went down the drain…
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Continue reading →: Short Staten Island Half Update
WHAAAAAAAT!!!!! 1:37:38! THREE SECONDS OFF MY 2.5 years old PR!!!!! So close, but I really did not have those three seconds anywhere. I gave it my all and I am so happy about it!! And I was hoping for sub 1:40!!! Christine and I run together until about mile nine…
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Continue reading →: September Runs: smells like hope and recovery
September was a good month. I managed to calm down my hamstring tear and keep running. I did 120 miles this month guys!!! I did very little speed but I am now trying to get back on it. For example, yesterday we did a crazy hard workout (I am still…
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Continue reading →: Fun weekend: Bronx X 2!
I know I don’t post nearly at all as much as I used to but here goes a tiny update. Saturday I did my longest run since May!!! I just have stopped running long, so the longest runs I’ll do might be 7 or maaaaaaybe 8 miles. The Brooklyn Half…
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Continue reading →: Race Report: the 5th Avenue Mile
Heyheyfriends!!!!!!! Okay, coffee overdose is winding down, finally, two days later… I had way too much coffee Sunday morning… I never have coffee. That was a problem. So, let me back up a bit. You remember how my hamstring was messy for 6 weeks? Doctor told me to let is…
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Continue reading →: 5th Avenue Mile – the Pro’s races
For now, I’ll just share a few pictures of the best abs you’ll see in action ever 5th Avenue Mile Pro Races. First the men, then the women, per the race schedule. What an exciting race to watch. You can watch both races here and see the official pictures here. For…
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Continue reading →: A little running in DC
Nothing fixes your running woes (UGH, all here) like a trip. Right? You almost forget to run sometimes when you’re on vacation. There’s vacations I run around like a mad person, like when I go to Buenos Aires, but most of my other vacations, I totally forget.. bad bad elizabeth.…
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Continue reading →: Well, I hated August!
August Well, August was rough for me guys. rough. Rough. As happy as I had been with my training this past year, mostly in the last few months (before freaking August!!!) it all went sorta crazy fast. I did the Team Championships on August 1st, not a PR but it was…
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Continue reading →: NYRR’s France Run, a sweet new 8K!
you know me, I’ll do them all, but this one is new!! NEW!!! Patricia, one of my training partners, is French and I figured it’d be so much to race this together. Well.. it’s usually her racing and then me chasing her 5 minutes behind, and I am happy if…
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Continue reading →: Challenge Pocono Mountains – race tips and report
This past weekend I attended a triathlon… there was a group of 7 of us: six of them were racing; I was volunteering/spectating/cheering/taking pictures and being the official obsesser about everything. Turns out, only two of us had combed through the Athlete Guide, which was useful because it was a complicated…
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Continue reading →: and the Newport Liberty Half Marathon Entry Winner, is….
And the random winner of a half marathon entry to the Newport Liberty Half Marathon, as selected by the random thing where I just push a button, is… tarararararraraaaaaaaaaaa… #Entry #9: Instagram Follower: frenchersss !! Congrats!! Please email me ASAP and I’ll put you in contact with the race organizers, or give you…
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Continue reading →: Summer Streets in NYC
What is Summer Streets, you say? On three consecutive Saturdays in the summer, nearly seven miles of New York City’s streets are opened up for everyone to play, run, walk and bike. I love Summer Streets! You get Park Avenue on the Upper East Side all the way downtown to…
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Continue reading →: NYRR Team Championships – a 5 Mile race and a Dashing Whippets’ picnic!
And we started August with a bang! I decided to sign up for this race pretty much a week before. I am glad I did because Patricia and I ended up leading the women masters for the team: everyone else was at a beach somewhere, which is, SURELY, what we…
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Continue reading →: July was just a lot of quality training… hello August racing!
July July!! Summer is here!!! And then the excitement fizzled, or burnt up, I’d say, fast! It was lovely and HOT. And I got some quality training done, all described here if you’re extra curious. I did exactly 20 runs, 6 of those were intervals, there was 1 tempo run,…
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Continue reading →: Training for a Half? Newport Half Marathon Entry Giveaway!
You all know I’ve been training (like a maniac) for a half… My half PR (1:37 something) NEEDS to go down this year. I am not much into goals but this one has been on my radar since earlier in the year (when I surprisingly and miraculously got super close…
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Continue reading →: Training Update
I know it’s been 3 weeks since my last post but things are STABLE, which is my favorite state 😉 Since my last race, and PR, at the Achilles – hope and possibility 5Miler, I’ve been running. Not a lot of miles, about 25 miles a week, doing speed work twice…
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