January 2010
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October 2009
3 posts
WatchStraight outta Lackawanna.
Asbury Park Relay Marathon
Yesterday I had the honor of joining my sister Michele and four other women to form Will Run 4 Chocolate, our Asbury Park Relay Marathon team. (She picked the name.) We ran 26.2 miles over eight laps through the Asbury streets and on the Boardwalk, switching team members under the unheated cover of Asbury’s Convention Hall.
The weather was horrific — cold windy rain early, followed...
August 2009
1 post
The road back
It’s been nearly two months since I last posted anything here. I’m now fine physically, though in that time I’ve ridden only about 250 miles and run 30 — which, in the general scheme of things, is very little for this point in the summer. I had a rib contusion from the accident that bothered me for the better part of a month, and exerting myself for more than five minutes...
June 2009
1 post
Not the North Fork Century recap
It’s 1:30 pm on Sunday, and I should be on the North Fork of Long Island more than halfway toward my first-ever cycling century (that is, a 100-mile ride). Instead I’m home from the hospital, nursing a very swollen lip and sore ribs, having crashed before I even got to the bus.
I was up at 3:45 am, with everything set out for clothes, gear, money, photocopies of my...
NYRR Japan Day 4-mile race
Two lessons learned this weekend:
1. If there’s an announcement that the President and First Lady are coming into New York City to see a Broadway show, and your spouse says, “hey, tickets are still available, let’s go!”, ignore her. It was an absolute madhouse in Times Square last night — security to get on to 44th Street to get to the Belasco was crazy, the show...
May 2009
10 posts
Hangin' with Barack and Michelle
Tomorrow night we are going to see August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” at the Belasco Theater on Broadway, pretty much exclusively because the Obamas are scheduled to attend and it was still available on TDF after reading the story about it. Let’s hope there is no national crisis tomorrow that keeps them from making the trip.
MS "Coast The Coast" Ride, 5/16/09 Report (Part 2)
Part 1 can be found here.
So after lunch, things were different. I said goodbye to Mom & Rich, took a musette bag from them with a change of clothes for the bus ride back, and headed off with Al and Dave. There were maybe a hundred riders or more still eating lunch when we left at about 1 pm, and there was no real rush by anyone to get moving, so it was obvious that the ride was going...
MS "Coast The Coast" Ride, 5/16/09 Report (Part 1)
My spring biking season unofficially came to an end yesterday with the 85-mile Coast The Coast ride, a benefit for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. It was my first charity ride, and only my second-ever massive group ride. 1500 riders were expected though with 25-mile and 50-mile options, the number of people joining me on the full trek from Monmouth University in West Long Branch to...
The final SIG ride
I leave in about half an hour for the final SIG ride of the spring, a 65-mile trip to Nyack and Piermont. I missed last week for the family baseball game, ridden no more than 15 miles at a time since, and the week before I ended exhausted and dehydrated. So I’m not sure how this will go today.
It’s also the final ride before the 85-mile MS Ride next Saturday, though that’s...
April 2009
5 posts
Palm Sunday -- Run for the Parks 4-miler + C-SIG...
It’s 10:30 at night and my legs are still tired.
Friday night, notices started to go up on the NY Cycle Club message board that Saturday SIG bike rides were being postponed to Sunday due to high winds. I knew that this was going to happen at least once — I was already scheduled to run a 4-mile race in Central Park on Sunday morning. However, I was fortunate on the scheduling. The...
March 2009
11 posts
C-SIG Week 2
Closter NJ, 40 miles round-trip, included a sit-down lunch. The weather started damp and cold but got really nice by midday.
One of the more appealing things about these rides is the leaders’ ability to develop routes that are mostly flat, despite Bergen County being quite hilly — which, given my relative fitness, is absolutely essential at this point. For the second consecutive...
Running in CP at night
It seems like I’m getting home from work later and later, and then getting out the door for a run. Last night I ran 3.5 miles and ended at 8:55 pm — by the time it gets to 9 pm in the park, I pass maybe a dozen runners per lap on the lower loop. The cars stop entering at 7, the dogs and their owners are hidden by the shadows, and there are few tourists looking for a...
Colon Cancer Challenge 4-miler
Today was the first true “double” cardio weekend of the year, with a 30+ mile NYCC C-SIG bike ride yesterday followed by today’s 4-mile NYRR run. I’ve been concerned with burnout on days where I had overlap between NYCC and NYRR, though yesterday’s bike ride was more casual / getting-to-know-you than a serious workout. I was in bed early last night, before...
The Sunday triathlon, plus the weight issue
Of sorts — ran 5.5 miles this morning, then rowed around the CP lake for an hour this afternoon (at Missy’s urging), and then finally took the bike out for a quick 12-mile, two-lap CP ride this evening. Sure beats the old triathlon of eating, drinking and watching TV.
The run was generally good except for a bit of right shoulder pain that I’ve been getting lately at the 2 or 3...
NY Cycle Club →
The cycling special interest group (SIG) started this morning with the “classification ride” - I rode 18 miles in about 1:11, which is a tiny bit above 15 mph pace and will likely put me in the “fast” group for the C-level riders. Really cold this morning!
It was a bit weird passing the clean-up of the NYRR 5-miler that took place in the park today as well, and not being...
It's Spring!
Rode 18 miles yesterday in 1:05, then ran five miles today in 43 minutes. The park was mobbed more than I’ve ever seen it - everyone has cabin fever.
February 2009
7 posts
what a strange evening for a run
So I got home from work about 7:45 and went out to run at 8. Mile 1 was normal, mile 2 was a little bit labored, but then I felt a change in my body where all of a sudden I was breathing normally and my heart rate seemed to go down. I kind of forgot I was running. The last two miles were *much* easier than the first two and I have no idea why.
running again
Tonight was the first time running after work in about two weeks - felt good to get out. 3.5 miles in about 30 minutes isn’t spectacular but it’s better than staying home and watching TV.
Speaking of TV, Westminster is on!
January 2009
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December 2008
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