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Continue reading →: Summer Streets + Dumpster Diving (& 16M Run)
This was a busy week, I didn’t get much sleep, but it was all worth it. Here are are some pics I got Friday night: And yesterday was the last day of Summer Streets, a city event that occurs three Saturdays in August… Basically, they block traffic on Park Avenue (that turns into…
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Bronx Half Marathon RR – more ?s than !s
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Continue reading →: Bronx Half Marathon RR – more ?s than !sI was really questioning my sanity today at 4:30 am when I woke up to head up to the Bronx Half Marathon. But, one of my 2010 goals was to do all five boros pikermis and now I just have one more to go, Staten Island in 4 weeks. Almost there!…
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Continue reading →: NYRR Team Championships 5 Miler RR – WTF?????
I feel like Bolt.. what the #)@*^(%^$%)*# just happened? WHO TOOK MY HORSE????????????? HUH ??? I am not upset, just a bit disappointed and mostly confused… I really thought this would be a good race… it was 70 this morning!! Again, I HAD NO CLUE… I really say that a LOT.…
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Continue reading →: I just want to run (maybe a tattoo?)
Do you know Marc Johns? He does these funny, whimsical, very simple yet smart watercolors. My sister sent me this one, with a note: “sometimes people get his drawings tattooed on, and he publishes the pictures; I thought you could get this tattooed on!” I like how this fellow is not exactly aerodynamic,…
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Continue reading →: The Perfect Mile – book review
Before you scream, IT IS A BOOK: I, obviously, wouldn’t even know a perfect mile if it hit me in the face with a jar of Nutella! I JUST finished reading it. And I say “just” because I got it for Christmas!!! First, I don’t have much time for…
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Continue reading →: Can’t Walk: :$”@!!!! F”_$^*!%^&@ H_#> #*@(]_#
My piriformis had been bothering me a bit the last two days with all the running I did this weekend. I decided I needed some serious stretching yesterday. A few hours later, very late, I called my sister in Argentina. My sis: Hola Me: It’s me! My sis: What happened??…
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Continue reading →: Sunday’s Trail Run: Rockefeller State Park
ou might have heard that we’ve been having a crazy heat wave and record temperatures around here… So, OF COURSE, after Saturday’s hot pikermi, I would go up to Rockefeller State Park Preserve with some team members for a “few hours” of trail running. That was as much as I knew about what was…
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Queens Half, RR: HOT HOT HOT
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Continue reading →: Queens Half, RR: HOT HOT HOTHow do you manage to have a good race and an kick at the end in a half marathon in 90 degrees (feels like of 94)?? Don’t know? Well, I would say having a good memory (or a blog!!!) made the difference this time. I’ll tell you how. I had…
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Continue reading →: Juggling (oh, ok, Multitasking!)
Some scientists from the Institute for Work and Health blah blah in Berlin determined this week that multitasking can lead to poor performance in the workplace. Well, I can’t say I agree as much as I don’t have a choice! I am usually doing a billion things a second at work, and after some…
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Continue reading →: The EVERYTHING + blood run
I last ran on Tuesday morning, then it rained all day. I got caught in the rain a couple of times, so Wednesday I woke up with a stuffy nose and a tight chest. Great. Wednesday rained a lot too and all I could think about was of a short…
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Continue reading →: Here we go again
For the third year in a row… Gotta get ready for the NYC Marathon! Ten days until the “official” training begins. Only 10 days left of freedom, of “I run whatever I want to“, at “whatever pace I feel like“.. Oh, I am going to miss this “in-between-marathons“ phase SO much! Bye bye…
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Continue reading →: A FIRST – Firecracker 4 miler race report
Oh, well, NJ is good for me… Hot weather, not so much. Not a big shocker there. On Thursday I signed up for a Firecracker 4 miler in the Garden State, and two seconds later I lost all excitement when I saw how hot it was going to be… Last weekend’s nightmare all over again.…
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What kind of horse am I in? Maybe one with a Prince on it…!
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Continue reading →: What kind of horse am I in? Maybe one with a Prince on it…!So, I’ve been doing amazingly well lately, if I may say so myself… I’ve been PRing with a lot of margin, with paces that seem neck-breaking for me!! And everyone keeps asking me what am I doing differently… I wish I could tell you… you know I would! All I can…
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Continue reading →: DONE with #@$%#%^ Summer Racing!!!/ON-a-HORSE!!! (Front Runner’s 5 Miler RR)
I did the Front Runner’s 5 Miler today. I love 5 milers but the last one I did was this same one last year, so I knew there was a high probability of a PR in the forecast, despite the weather forecast: it has been insanely hot all week. Call me crazy, but I don’t…
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Continue reading →: Weekend Videos: Kara/Shalane/Me
Hello!!! Hope you’re having a great weekend, and in case you need a laugh (because, who doesn’t?), here’s something for you! There’s one video you HAVE to see and one you can (totally) skip, but I’ve been pressured into posting it… #1 Kara Goucher and Shalane Flanagan trashing each other. Loved it. Watch…
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Continue reading →: I am a/the Runner. Nice to meet you.
I was at my aunt’s this weekend and my cousin shows up with a girl (I liked her, in case they’re reading –oh, hello!!). They’re not big on introductions, so I go up to her and said “Hi, I am Elizabeth”, and she says (very excited) “Ah!!! you’re the runner!!”.…
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Continue reading →: Scavenger Hunt Entry, sit down for this one
When (OSOM) Mr.Bacon posted about the Scavenger hunt I got so super excited I wanted to run out of work, lace up, and go out for pictures. Is there anything more exciting than pictures??? anything? Do-not-think-so! Of course you know I would go overboard with pictures! It took me one run plus…
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Mini 10K RR
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Continue reading →: Mini 10K RREverybody I know was wondering why I’d be racing while Argentina was playing. I was questioning it too: I never do well in this race, it was hot, humid, and… the World Cup was on. Still, I’d rather be the main character in my life before being a spectator of…
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Continue reading →: If you are having a bad day…
Take yourself for a nice walk. Or go into the closet, and scream. Go for a run and pound the pavement. Or stop moving and relax. Take out your old beaten-up, super-comfortable pair of running shoes. Or break out the shiny, brand-new, and crisp ones. Find one fun thing to…
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Continue reading →: Got Oxygen? (My trip to CO)
I am back! Colorado was SO much fun! I went there to visit my friend F who moved to Denver over a year ago and to do the Bolder Boulder 10K (a 10k with 50 thousand people… can you imagine??). When I asked my cardiologist last year about visiting/running there, he said no… so I…
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