-
Recent Posts
Upcoming Races
It’s all virtual!
Flickr Photos
Twitter Updates
Tweets by scoopsontherunArchives
Categories
Meta
Author Archives: scoopsontherun
Halfway There
If anyone starts singing that Bon Jovi, “Living on a Prayer” song I will smack you. We are exactly nine weeks away from the NYC Marathon or 66 days, 19 hours 22 minutes, and 14 seconds. Oh wait, 13 seconds, … Continue reading
Not Broken But Just a Little Bent
This week brings to an end the first half of my marathon training for this year. In 10 weeks I will I will be running through all five boroughs of New York City again and I can’t wait! The love … Continue reading
Posted in NYC Marathon, running
Tagged marathon training, NYC Marathon, Running, training
Leave a comment
I Have a Mantra!
I think self-help books are hoakey. Always have. So of course when I started running longer distances and I kept hearing and reading about the importance of finding a mantra to say to yourself to help you along the way. … Continue reading
Posted in NYC Marathon, running
Tagged Damon Runyon 5k, NYC Marathon, NYRR, Running, training, Yankee Stadium
1 Comment
The Century Mark
After many years of running I finally hit a pretty special milestone and everything about it is just so perfect. I ran exactly 100 miles in the month of July. Not 99.99 miles or 100.2 miles, it was exactly 100 … Continue reading
4 Weeks Down 14 To Go
It’s almost hard to believe that I’m a month into this year’s marathon training but that is where I am and thankfully still in one piece. I’ve only had one panic attack since starting this new training plan which is … Continue reading
Posted in running
2 Comments
Totally Mental
I’ve started my third week of marathon training and I haven’t had a panic attack — yet. This is not to say that I haven’t already had my doubts about switching to the intermediate plan. The back to back runs … Continue reading
Posted in NYC Marathon, Races, running
Tagged Hal Higdon, marathon training, NYC Marathon, NYRR, racing, Running, training
1 Comment
Lessons Learned From the Streak
I’m nearing the end of the second week of 2012 marathon training and getting used to the idea that I have two non-running days every week. One is a cross-training day on Monday (read by me as a rest day) … Continue reading
Posted in NYC Marathon, running
Leave a comment
And So It Begins…Again
Today was the first day of marathon training. I would like to apologize to all of my non-running friends and co-workers in advance. You know it’s going to happen, you were hoping it wouldn’t but alas it is. Marathon training … Continue reading
Posted in NYC Marathon, running
Tagged Hal Higdon, marathon training, NYC Marathon, Running, training
3 Comments
Things I See While Running
I was going to write a nice little race recap of the Get Out on Governors Island 10k (GOGI10k) but I’m not very good at writing race recaps. I just can’t seem to get interested in writing about how fast, … Continue reading
Posted in NYC Marathon, Race Recap, running
Tagged Garmin, marathon training, NYC Marathon, racing, Running, training
Leave a comment
scoopsontherun 