Today is an overcast day with 19 MPH winds. I ran the Shamrock Shuffle 5-mile race in Glens Falls and almost exactly nailed my goal time (off by 3 seconds). It was a new PR at the 5-mile distance (32:33) and I’m really happy about it. Update (3.29.2010): Jen and I left before the results […]
Entries from March 2010
Shamrock Shuffle 2010
Sunday, March 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Tags: running
A Banner 7-Day Workout Week
Sunday, March 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments
As I wrote about back in January, this year to date I’ve been taking it somewhat easy, not logging too many big miles and focusing more on speed work and faster 6- to 8-mile runs, making more of an effort to run once or twice a week with my running club, the Saratoga Stryders. Running […]
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Spring is in the Air
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 · 4 Comments
One thing’s for certain: There’s nothing like five months of a dreary and cold Northeast winter to make one really appreciate the sun (even if we didn’t get much snow this year). So when the temperature climbed to the low 60s yesterday, all I wanted to do was be outside. Yesterday also happened to be […]
Tags: anecdotes · saratoga springs
Weekend Recap: Painting, Games, Graney’s
Monday, March 15th, 2010 · Comments Off on Weekend Recap: Painting, Games, Graney’s
The best weekends are those when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it all. Those are also the weekends that seem to last longer than two-and-a-half days. This past weekend was one of those. Though we didn’t go out Friday night after work, Jen and I did stay in for our own fun […]
Tags: anecdotes
Runnin’ of the Green (Island) 2010
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Photo courtesy of HMRRC; that’s me on far right Despite dealing with some craptastic back pain the past week and a half, I set a new 4-mile race PR this morning (25:52) at the Runnin’ of the Green in Green Island, NY, near Troy, and I was pretty psyched about that. Like last year’s race […]
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