My New Goal Races – Including Two in Europe!
I’ve been enjoying taking it easy post-marathon. Both last week and the week before my weekly mileage total was a whopping 8 miles (but I’ve run 8 so far this week and it’s only Tuesday, so I’m already...
View ArticleLeaving On a Jet Plane (Europe, Here I Come!)
Just a quick post to say arrivederci before I leave for Europe tonight! I am going to Europe for the first time since I finished a year of teaching English in Sicily in the summer of 2012. It feels...
View ArticleStramilano 10K Race Recap and A Weekend in Milan
I’m so behind in posting about the final stop on my March European trip: Milan! I was in Milan for the last weekend in March, and my friend Maria Laura from college who now lives in Paris flew to Milan...
View ArticleShelter Island 10K Race Recap
Racing in the summer never seems like it’s going to be a great idea – it’s usually hot and humid, which makes it hard to breathe and stay hydrated – but despite this I still registered for the Shelter...
View ArticleMy Fall Racing Schedule
It has been a slooooow summer of running. I had 8 weeks off for summer break (yay teachers!) and I enjoyed those to the max. I traveled to Chicago, to Alabama and the Florida Gulf Coast, and went to...
View ArticleOakley Mini 10K Recap
The Mini 10K is one of my favorite races. It was the first all-women’s road race, and from 70-something finishers in 1972 to almost 6,000 finishers in 2014, it’s so much fun to be a part of. My mom...
View ArticleHaunted Island 10K Recap
Last Saturday morning, on Halloween, I ran the Haunted Island 10K on Roosevelt Island. Since I wanted to run a total of 12 miles in preparation for the Philadelphia Half Marathon on November 22nd, I...
View ArticleRunning Highlights of 2015
December has been a busy month and I haven’t gotten a chance to blog much. So I’ll update you with the most important piece of news: Two days ago, I registered for my second marathon! I’ve been...
View ArticleHyde Park 10K
Even though I’ve had to cut way back on my running in the past few months, I couldn’t resist signing up for a 10K in Hyde Park last weekend. It was a 5K/10K race, and you could decide halfway through …...
View ArticleGreenwich Park 10K Recap
In the midst of the election mayhem of the past week, that feels not unlike the apocalypse, it’s been all I could do to keep up with my schoolwork, and I haven’t had the heart to write any blog …...
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