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  • Race Ya

    I ran the Fifth Avenue Mile a few years back. Doing the 9+1 program with NYRR that year (completing 9 NYRR races in a calendar year + 1 volunteer race guarantees entry into NYC Marathon the following year) pushed me outside my comfort zone. I raced a lot more on all sorts of distances I…

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  • For the Birds

    Before there was a Boston Marathon, there was the Buffalo Turkey Trot. America’s oldest fowl-themed event is also its oldest continuously run foot race.   For the record, the Buffalo race is not to be confused with the long-running annual race of actual turkeys, held in Cuero, Texas. (In 2000, I edited a funny kids’ novel…

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  • Running Resolve

    In my running life, resolutions are an everyday thing, not an annual New Year’s Day exercise.  Each morning, I find myself needing to make a new promise to get out the door at some point that day for a jog. Usually, before my head hits the pillow that night, I am able to follow through…

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