The runners adjusted carefully to 30 mph winds by sticking to a slow pace at the start. Keitany, also from Kenya, won the women’s title with a final time of 2:25:07. In her previous NYC Marathon, Keitany took an early lead but this year she held back. She and Kenya’s Jemima Su...
The morning of theNYC Marathon, the three of us got up around 4. Allen is a creature of habit. His routines before a race are not unlike Rain Man’s affinity for underwear from K-Mart. The boy knows what works for him and he doesn’t deviate. The routine is: bathroom, getting dres...
The runners adjusted carefully to 30 mph winds by sticking to a slow pace at the start. Keitany, also from Kenya, won the women’s title with a final time of 2:25:07. In her previous NYC Marathon, Keitany took an early lead but this year she held back. She and Kenya’s Jemima Su...
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not even my own boyfriend at the time. Graduation, moving into NYC and getting my first corporate job, along with an extra 20lbs (I missed out on the Freshman 15 and just put it all on after college with the NYC carb-load-can’t-afford-real-food diet of bagels, pizza and pasta),...
What does it take to be an ultramarathoner? A lot of devotion,even when difficulties occur sometimes. “Making time for running is really hard when life is so busy,” she says. “There’s a big work-life balance that I have to keep. I have to wake up earlier on the weekends. And...
To the 15 years ago me My dad would put his calloused, meat hook of a hand in mine and tell me to squeeze it as hard as I could and I would. It wasn't until I was in high school that he finally pulled his big paw out of my grip and told me with a mix of... ...
about myself are nearly the same thing. So I suppose it’s all rightto read this as a kind of memoir centered on the act of running.Though I wouldn’t call any of this philosophy per se, this bookdoes contain a certain amount of what might be dubbed lifelessons. They might not ...
In 2013 the NYC marathon had a record of 50,304 finishers! Lots more runners this year and lots more injuries too! Back in 1970, the people that were running marathons were not wearing what we might think of as a traditional running shoe (support, cushion, and an elevated heel). Those...
So how does a Major League Baseball team not see this coming when they sign a free agent and put him through the appropriate physical? Let's take Tanaka for example. The Yankees did their due diligence on him, but sometimes things are not what they appear to be. ...