Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
(Continued from Part 5)
The last legs of the race were mostly a blur. The sun had come up and it seemed like a new day, but when one doesn't sleep through the night the days just blur together. Physicians in residency understand this the most, as perhaps do gamblers who ...
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
(Continued from Part 4)
At 4:15am, I texted R, who was up next for a run. "We r near coffee." Her response: "Thanks. Can you bring 3?"
At the van, I left S to baby-wipe himself off and change shirts while I poured three cups of coffee and, in my FiveFingers, managed ...
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
(Continued from Part 3--sorry for the delay in getting this up)
The moment of the handoff was always a confusing one. The runners came into the chute one at at time, mostly, and everyone waiting--generally at least fifty to a hundred runners milling around waiting for their teammate--cheered on whomever was ...
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
(Continued from Part 2)
The mood at the beginning of the race was nervous and exciting. At exchange 6, where most of the teams would be united for the first time, the atmosphere was electric. At exchange 12, where there were a scores of vans and hundreds of runners, the Ragnar ...
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
(Continued from part 1)
Two miles into the second half of my first leg the road went from paved macadam to gravel and dirt. I knew I couldn't have made a wrong turn because there was no where else to go except into the woods. I had stopped early in the ...
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
Friday, May 14: the day started perfect: overcast skies, 60˚F, a light breeze. The humidity was a little higher than we'd have preferred, but we didn't let that bother us. The crowd at the start was lighter than expected, only a couple hundred runners tops milling around the small park ...
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
My next big race will be the Ragnar Relay, from Woodstock, NY, to Tarrytown, NY. I'm part of a six member team called The Magnificent 7 and each of us will run from 30 to 36 miles in our trek through the counties of "upstate" New York. I'm not really ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
There's not much to say about this race except that I kicked its ass. The weather was, ironically, good for me, because only 2600 people showed up to run it the 4.9 mile course (NYRR 8000) in 40F weather with gusting winds up to 15 MPH (though the NYRR website ...
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