December 2009
4 posts
Whoa! We're halfway there!
I am halfway to my goal weight! (Well, .2 more than halfway.)
Head-To-Toe, NYRR Holiday 4M
If I were Mary Rambin there would be a picture here! And I would have nicer shit because I would have sponsors.
Cranberry short-sleeve Dri-Fit shirt, L.L. Bean
Black long-sleeve Dri-Fit shirt, Brooks (purchased on sale at City Sports in Rockefeller Center this summer to wear under a wet suit during a surfing lesson. Lesson being: I am not good at surfing.)
Gray Polartec fleece jacket,...
First 4M ever.
I didn’t walk, I didn’t fall, and I didn’t give up. My time for the NYRR Holiday 4M was not incredible — I actually added about 14 seconds to my pace from my 5K in September — but I’ll say this: it was pretty close to my first 5K time from July, only I ran 33 percent longer, a distance I had only run once before in the gym.
I don’t normally run outside...
NYRR Holiday 4M - December 12, 2009 →
I am running this race in two days. It’s my first race since I injured my foot in October, but when I originally signed up for it it was a 5K. (Seemed foolish to drop out over .9 miles, right?)
If you had told me at the beginning of the year I would be about to run 4 miles and that I had already done so at the gym, I would have told you to take a short walk off a tall cliff. I doubt I could...
