runningandthecity

What’s happened since yesterday?? I’ve been going back and forth all day thinking: –    This Ultra thing is going to be great, make me stronger; I’ll recover fast cause it’s trails (there’s not much pavement pounding) and it’ll be so much fun! –    I am an idiot. I just effed up my…

And it’s also 3 weeks before NYCM. Crazy?? You betcha! It all happened so fast… I was running in the park last night SIDEBAR: Amazing run. I swear these new Asics DS Trainers make me 74% faster. Or at least I felt that way. It was a glorious run. I was…

The Hottest Summer on Record is finally over and I learned a few good lessons this year, maybe the wrong way, but I figured I’d share (ha, who am I kidding, if I don’t write it down, I will forget it all by next year). After a few very crazy hot half marathons…

Or that I will ever take that crap again!!! First, I don’t think it made any kind of difference on my sleep.   Granted, I am a superb sleeper, that is one of my biggest talents, if I can say so myself. Everyone said the stooopid pill will swoosh the pain away…

First, two things people kept emailing me about… 1- Did I faint? Given my heart issues and all that, I totally get the concern, don’t feel bad for bringing it up. I was definitively “out of it”. The speed and the heat were killing me.  That’s why I decided to get…

I am an idiot. Or Running makes me an idiot. Or treadmills make me an idiot. I am probably not thinking straight right now. I was supposed to do a Tempo, 7 miles, with 5 at 7:42. It was dark already when I got home so I headed for the…

The Plan was to do 20 miles, Saturday, 9 am. By then it was already 75 degrees. Yeah, we could have gone early, but… blah, it’s a Saturday! We were going to get the possibly last weird tan lines of the year with a run to Riverside Park, over the…

Check it out… see? I am guessing I scored that one at a NYCM expo… The Berlin one was a gift from cheeky.runner when she run the marathon last year.  Not sure where the 13.1 sticker is from… I didn’t run any of those races! I got the Run Happy one…

I never wanted to run. I hated all sports equally. Then, a few years ago, I started running, very very slowly, just to mess up with my cardiologist’s plans.  I liked it.   I never wanted to race. What’s the point? In 2006, I was forced into a half marathon. I became addicted.…

That’s me, trying really hard to work… Yeah, I dress like that to work. I know what you’re thinking… “she’s 35 and wearing jeggins to work!! the nerve!!“. And I swear for a whole year I kept thinking how stoopid jeggins where, until I got a pair on. They’re going to have to extirpate…

This happens to me all the time: Saturday: Long run/race Saturday, later: Feet/legs might be tired and/or swollen. I am exhausted. Sunday: Just a bit tired, maybe a bit sore/slow Monday, morning: All fine, I run, get ready, go to work, all normal. Monday, later: After two hours of sitting,…