I Hate Mile 23: Archive

Apr 18th

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Running was originally helping with stress

But at some point running became a major contributor to stress. Instead of something fun to do, it got filled with pressure, mostly pressure to compete with myself. I started training really hard and fast, and subsequently started injuring myself while training. Now I haven’t run a race since last fall, and I’ve decided I don’t have to run unless I want to. This means I’ve...

Apr 10th

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My PR list

5k: 21:54 (7:03 pace) Salsa, Blues & Shamrocks 3/7/2010 4M: 27:14 (6:48 pace) adidas Run for the Parks 4/20/2008 10k: 46:53 (7:23 pace) Joe Kleinerman 10k 12/10/2006 Half Marathon: 1:36:46 (7:23 pace) Brooklyn Half 5/3/2008 Marathon: 3:32:25 (8:06 pace) NYC Marathon 11/2008

Apr 10th

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Mar 20th

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Mar 11th

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Mar 6th

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Feb 22nd

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Feb 15th

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Jan 28th

How 2 Run Fast: Would You Run a Marathon Indoors? →

idontgetrunnershigh: how2runfast: A recent article in the Wall Street Journal describes the growing popularity of marathons run on indoor tracks, requiring 150 laps or more to complete the 26.2 mile race. My son runs indoor track, so I’ve been to a lot of indoor races recently. I get dizzy just watching them. I can’t… I really considered doing the Instep Indoor Marathon in Milwaukee a few...

Jan 20th

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Second run is officially back

Once you’ve done your second run to “get back on track” you’re all right. Ran 33 minutes today, and didn’t get chased by any pit bulls. When I’m back in New York and it’s freezing, this will continue. I’ve had lost winters before, but not this time. (Mark it.)

Jan 5th

Ran today

Haven’t been since hurting myself before the marathon, which is quite a while to take off. But, I’m busy at work, and after not getting to do the marathon the wind has been out of my sails. I’m on vacation in Turks and Caicos, and I did a 30-minute run today in shorts and a tank top. It seemed all right, except that a pit bull came out of the tropical plants along the road and...

Jan 4th

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Overall this would have been a better year

if I could have run the marathon

Nov 25th

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Nov 2nd

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Oct 19th

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This year I will not be running the New York...

I injured myself just before leaving for a conference in Las Vegas. Nothing big, just did an hour long run, felt good and strong, and then had trouble walking afterward. Didn’t run for a week, while away, but then ran again tonight to test the water. The area behind my knee hurts, and it’s hard to walk at a normal pace with a normal gait. This is the kind of injury that happens...

Oct 15th

Good luck Chicago Marathoners!

10-10-10!

Oct 9th

Longest run of the year

Went 23 miles today. Ran to Central Park, then went 3 laps of the park. On the last lap, I cut out the great hill. That’s my longest of the year. From now till the race, all runs will be less. I’m tired!

Oct 3rd

Up early to run but it's raining hard

Sometimes I’m hardcore, but not today. What about you?

Sep 30th

Sep 26th

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BLISTERS!

Today I ran 3:05 in new shoes. Brand new, shining white Asics GT-2150’s. Every time they cancel one model and bring out a new one (2140 = over; 2150 = your new and only option) it makes me nervous, and I’m afraid I’ll wind up crippled. I have blisters and a bloody toe to report, but no lifelong debilitating crippling. Unless it’s slow onset. I went a way I don’t...

Sep 26th

rhodyram: I killed it! My goal was to take 20 minutes off my last race… I wound up knocking 40 minutes off!! My time at the Westchester Triathlon this morning was 3 hours, 7 minutes!! I’m so happy. CONGRATS MARC!! You’re knocking 40 minutes off your triathlon time! I can’t swim!! :)

Sep 26th

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Marathon Tune-Up

Did the Marathon Tune-Up yesterday. Last year, this was a rainy and cold race, but yesterday was warm and sunny. The race is 3 laps of Central Park, which is 6 miles around, making 18 miles. The race is about 7 weeks before the NYC Marathon, so you can use it to judge how you’re doing. My training has been decent this year, so I formulated a running plan and had a goal and all that....

Sep 20th

rhodyram: I finally finished… 11.5 hours later… I meant to complete the 100 mile century in 6 hours.. though, I didn’t anticipate several flat tires, a broken spoke, a crash, aiding a woman with deep lacerations due to another crash, cold rain, detours, but…. I fucking did it! I’m so happy! I saw the riders along my entire run this morning: from Astoria to South Williamsburg. Didn’t...

Sep 12th

Sep 4th

I Hate Mile 23: 18 miler →

awpoops: I think I’ll be doing my first 18-er this weekend. I’ve done a lot of runs in the 15-17 range, and averaged about 40 miles a week for the last month. I’m not really following a training plan. I’m just doing this willy-nilly. The heat this summer has been really shitty, but for the most part I’ve just been running what I feel like running, and reminding myself that this is a hobby and...

Aug 23rd

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18 miler

I did my first 18 mile run of the year yesterday. It’s 6 miles from home to Central Park, and then the loop of the park is also 6 miles. So for an 18 mile run I get up early, go across the 59th Street Bridge to Manhattan, and then do two laps of Central Park. The park is one of my favorite places to run, as long as you get there early before too many people arrive. The run went fine. My...

Aug 23rd

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Jul 25th

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Jul 24th

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Running is hard these days

Yesterday I ran, possibly for the 5th time in 3 weeks. It’s been so hot for so long, that most days I go home intending to run, but then fall asleep instead. Normally I have trouble running through the winter, but this year it’s the summer giving me trouble. (It all started with that terrible race on Wall Street.) How do you do it?

Jul 21st

Reblog if you're a fitness blog just wanting to be...

idontgetrunnershigh: 365to30: wlprogress: gut2glam: (via carlconnor, fewerinches) Say yes to food. I’m not a fitness blog… I don’t think, and I don’t want to be healthier. I just want to be faster. I Hate Mile 23 seconds that emotion. I run to stop the voices in my head.

Jul 13th

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Jul 12th

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Jul 6th

What Not to Do as a Spectator →

idontgetrunnershigh: runnyknows: With my first race of the season today, I thought this would be appropriate. Add to number one don’t say “you cam do it!” I know they mean well, but it makes me mad. I feel like that means I look worse than I feel. I sometimes yell “You can DO it!” but it’s all in how you say it. More universally excellent things to yell are You got it!,...

Jul 3rd

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American Heart Association Start! Wall Street Run...

This race on Thursday afternoon wound through lower Manhattan to finish on the Battery Park promenade. The official race temp is 87 degrees, but I don’t know if I believe that. Sounds too cold and balmy to me. When your pace steadily drops off through the whole race, you are runnin’ too fast, boyo. God, it was hot. There weren’t so much spectators as tourists who were mad they...

Jun 26th

This is gonna be the worst race evar

Jun 24th

Temperature on Thursday: 96!

Okay, we’re really giving up on the race.

Jun 23rd

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Hot Hot Heat

I’m doing a race Thursday afternoon. It’s a 3 mile, and I was hoping to do a good pace time with it. It’s been really hot, though, and every time I run I feel like I just woke up from a 1000 year nap. Always a slog. If this week and last were rainy and cool, then maybe I would feel good about it. But I think I’m going to let this one go and just run it. I will feel better...

Jun 22nd

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NYRR Father's Day Race

If you ran this, I was the volunteer marshal at the thin part of the road near Central Park South. I yelled, “Here it gets tight, stay to the right!” About three bike riders called me an asshole. We don’t like them anyway, do we?

Jun 21st

Jun 9th

That's right, it's 90 and I'm going running

Jun 5th

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Runners spit towards their feet!

Just a friendly reminder everyone might pass on to two other people, like a very, very helpful chain letter. Remember that we all spit down, towards our feet, rather than, say, over our shoulder at head level, or at the grass eight feet away. Because!: you never know who might be passing you right at that moment! (Yes, twice in the past two weeks.)

May 27th

May 14th

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Snakes on a Run

Yesterday I was running on County Line Road and got scared by a snake on the road. He was dead though. Then today I got scared by the same snake a second time. Still dead.

May 3rd

Getting all my good lucks out of the way today because I’m going to Cleveland tomorrow. So many marathons this weekend, and here I just plan to eat pizza and pet the dog.

Apr 29th

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Watch

Good luck this weekend to awpoops and awpeeps in the Pittsburgh Marathon and Half! Chris, you be the runninest runner of the running runners, so I sincerely hope you finish the 26.2 miles in under fifteen minutes. :) Things I learned posting this: I have spelled Pittsburgh wrong for mmm,mmm years. awpoops: Sunday I’m running the Pittsburgh Marathon. It’ll be my second marathon, and with a...

Apr 29th

Illinois marathon

Good luck this weekend idontgetrunnershigh!

Apr 29th

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running on empty: Do as I say… →

I’m writing a few articles for Runner’s World. One of them is about how runners can get addicted (so to speak) to using gadgets like iPods and HRMs and how sometimes it’s important to go sans technology. For instance, all coaches say you really shouldn’t listen to music when coming off an… You know, I’ve never run using an iPod or related music thing. I think I get distracted too...

Apr 27th