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Continue reading →: NYC Half 2014: and the giveaway winner is….
So, my super official NYC Half Marathon finish time, according to NYRR, is 1:50:10, which is quite peculiar because look at what I had guessed on my giveaway post… Still, NO ONE listens to me and not ONE guessed 1:50:xx!!!!! Still, someone was the closest one… the winner is…. Congrats “Marathon Mama!!!!!!…
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Race Report: NYC Half 2014 – training starts here!
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Continue reading →: Race Report: NYC Half 2014 – training starts here!Well, the NYC Half happened. Again. For the 6th time for me. And I am VERY happy about it. I hadn’t trained, I was 13 minutes slower than last year, but this was such a different story from the NYC Marathon a few months ago…! The truth is, since July my training has…
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Continue reading →: #NYCHALF done!!
Exactly what I had predicted: 1:50. What I was surprised with: SO MUCH FUN! Not having trained, doing it 13 mins slower than last year is ok, but man was I happy to be back in the road. So happy! BEST DAY EVER. Now I enjoy (some more!)!! More soon!
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Continue reading →: Bibbed!
I guess I am as ready as I can be: I’ve calculated what time I have to be there (at least an hour before the start), I have affixed the sticker to the bag, I have set my alarm. The rest will be decided at the last minute! If you’re…
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Continue reading →: NYC Half, Throwback Thursday edition #nychalf #tbt #unitednychalf
Just because we are on NYC Half Marathon week and it seems to be all we can think about around here… some pics from my SIX NYC Half Marathons! it’s crazy how things change… NYC Half was my first half marathon AND my first race ever… so here we go! 2014…
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Continue reading →: Best run ever, or at least in 3 months!!
Holy smokes friends!! When in doubt, drop the tank top!!! It is NICE OUT!! Wow. 1. Not all is lost. Well, the New York City half is lost for me but apparently I can get my mojo back in no time. I realized that I soon as it was nice…
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Continue reading →: Who Will Win a Prize??? Guess my Finish Time at the NYC Half next Sunday!
Just like I did for pretty much every race in the last 18 months, it’s time to place your bets again… I love how there is always someone who nails it right in the head! Rules: pick a time and write in the comments below. Whoever gets closer, wins, If…
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Continue reading →: Women’s Running, Blogger on the Run, I almost missed it!
As I was in the process of moving for the past 4 weeks (all done now!), some stuff really got lost or didn’t happen. I’ve been MIA. From everything! And I am just now catching up with some of my subscriptions, hence the surprise in this morning’s commute with March’s…
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Continue reading →: Falling: The Investigation.
As you know, I’ve been falling a lot lately… Besides getting bumps, bruises, blood and chipped bones, and having to stop training for days, I got worried. Well, mostly upset, frustrated, and full of WTF?!?!?!?! I am not distracted, slipping, tripping, I just PLOP. Big big mystery. So, after going…
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Continue reading →: Happy Valentine’s Day to my Single Running Friends
I know it’s a sappy sappy day and I am sure I am not allowed to say much because Juan and I seem like the most sugary people ever, but let me get out of that zone. If you are single, today feels like hell. I know it. I haven’t…
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Continue reading →: Running Valentine’s Week – in Runner’s World!
We just caught this on runnersworld.com, go to #46. Happy Running Valentines’s Week!! If you want to see more pictures like this, click on the link above, if you want to see more pictures of our romance stuff… here: A Running Proposal Engagement Pictures I get married today!!! A PR Wedding!…
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Continue reading →: #@!!*^MFKR#@!!* $SHt@# because “I FELL AGAIN!!!” got old
Lately my life seems to be a cycle of falling and healing, with other stuff, including running, thrown in. There was the horrifying PR period of 2010 when I fell 3 times in 10 days, breaking my hip bone, scapula, two ribs, and tearing my cuff rotator (ouch)… all two…
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Continue reading →: I don’t know what to do
I have two races up ahead, very close, LOOMING: I am in no shape to race or PR at any, but I could probably finish them. Well, the half at least. Boston, I am not sure. When I did NYC Marathon 3 months ago I was in awful shape (and still better…
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Continue reading →: A Strong Spring is made NOW
In case you need them: Tips for running in really cold winter weather!
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Continue reading →: 99.9% of the times it is not “I can’t”; just learn to say “I don’t want to”.
Take “I can’t” out of your vocabulary. It is ALWAYS a LIE. (or 99.9% of the times!) It will teach you were your priorities are. Agree?
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Continue reading →: Tips to run in the WINTER
I know many of you are total badasses that don’t need help with this, but some of us DO did. In my first year as a runner, I skipped running from November to March. On my second year,, I went to the treadmill for those months. Eventually, on my third…
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Continue reading →: NYRR New Year’s Eve Midnight Run: Freezing/Fun way to start the Year!
It was December 31st, 2013 and at around 9 pm we started the whole process of getting dressed to go out. This wasn’t a “I am gonna wear my most fabulous”-getting-dressed -frenzy all over the apartment as it usually happens right before the end of the year. This was a “how…
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Continue reading →: 2013: Numbers do tell the whole story
I’ve added the last years for comparison purposes… and my comments in Italics. I expect your comments too! Total Miles: 2009- 678 2010- 1217 2011- 886 2012- 1241 2013- 1109 —What a crapshoot. I was doing great until July, when got a mighty Ulcer and all the other stuff hit…
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Continue reading →: NO to New Year Resolutions
Wouldn’t t we love a clean slate that erases all our little sins and we can pretend things are gonna change starting today? you know well it doesn’t work that way. I think people with resolutions are kidding themselves. If you have a goal for the year, go ahead. But if you start…
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