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 Today was a picture-perfect fall day. The morning fog rose over the trees as we drove south to Albany for the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve 1/2 Marathon — my third half-marathon and second in the past 3 weeks — which shares the second half of the Mohawk-Hudson River Marathon course, one of the fastest in […]

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On Sunday when I ran 20.11 miles to complete Week 8 of my second marathon training plan, I reached another insane milestone in my new running obsession: I’ve run more than 1,000 miles in 9 months! Here’s a fun chart that shows my rapidly increasing mileage over the past 4 months: Sunday also marked my […]

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Last weekend I ran my second half-marathon and Jen ran her second 5k (now she’s run twice as many 5ks as I have!). The weather was perfect and hundreds of people showed up here in Saratoga Springs for the third annual Saratoga Palio memorial race to benefit the Melanie Merola O’Donnell Scholarship Fund. If you […]

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Some people think I’m crazy — and many of you have told me so — for running as much as I do. I know it’s a little nuts that I went from 0 to marathon with just 5 months of distance running. And that I’m now following an intense training schedule — the Pfitz 55/18, […]

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 If you want to live longer and eat whatever the hell you want, start running. Or swimming. A lot. First, the living longer. In a new study that spanned 20 years, Stanford researchers found that a group of runners were less disease-prone and more likely to live longer: Running ‘can slow ageing process’ Running not […]

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Happy 5-year anniversary to my beautiful bride! Saturday marked mine and Jen’s 5th wedding anniversary, and we couldn’t have asked for a better weekend. We reflected on how lucky we are not only to have each other, but to have such a full life, surrounded by so many wonderful friends and family. We started our […]

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What a way to celebrate 9 years of being with my awesome wife (and race photographer), as well as our independence: Running a 4-mile race with 444 448 other people on a picture-perfect day through the beautiful and historic streets of Saratoga Springs. The second annual Firecracker 4-Mile Road Race was my 6th career distance […]

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Tonight I ran a hard and fast interval workout with the Saratoga Stryders in the Spa State Park. We did roughly 8/10ths of a mile five times — fast. It’s a big and fast group of local runners. And everyone’s really nice. Last Wednesday was my first workout with the group, and the Saturday before […]

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San Diego, CA. June 1, 2008. 26.2 miles. Chip time: 3 hours, 40 minutes, 5 seconds. I ran a marathon. I am a marathoner. Those are words I never thought I’d be able to say (or even thought I’d want to say). Just 6 months ago, the notion seemed insane. On Sunday, June 1, 2008 […]

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This is it. It’s go time. It’s hard to believe that in just 3 days, I’ll be running my first marathon. In fact, if all goes according to plan and I hit or beat my goal, I’ll actually be done by this time Sunday morning (it’s 7:30am here in New York, 10:30am San Diego time). […]

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