Tag: running
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A Diary of an Ultrarunning Life, Such That I Have One and This Is It
I always joked to myself that this blog would run its course when it turned into my running diary. If it’s no longer a joke, let’s get on with it. A brief note on web ephemera: blogs disappear not only when you stop posting but stop paying. Sites holding history merge, morph, migrate, sell. Integrations…
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Race Report: Mining For Vert Challenge
This race consisted of a 0.7673934-mile trail loop up and down the Silvermine Ski Hill, in Harriman State Park, put on wonderfully by CTW Endurance. You could do the two-hour or the four-hour option; I did the latter. (There was also a 7.488766-mile trail race.) The course Up one abandoned little ski slope— The loop starts…
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Race Report: Frosty Fat Sass
This race consisted of a 5K trail loop around the South Mountain Reservation, in New Jersey. It offered three options: I did the latter, so my race lasted from nine a.m. to three p.m. … ish. A few other things The race was self-supported; only water was provided. No problem—typical for a timed race in…
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Parks of the Bronx: Van Cortlandt photo essay
Van Cortlandt Park, the third-largest in New York City, and one of the only three covering more than 1,000 acres, boasts the first public golf course in the USA, constructed in 1895. The park is also home to cricketers, who got ten full fields developed on the park’s old parade grounds in 2013. And it’s hallowed ground for high school…
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Parks of the Bronx: Riverdale photo essay
One of the last areas I expect anyone to notice, when they look at a map of New York City, is the vertical sliver of green in the northwest corner of the Bronx. But that’s where Riverdale Park sits, tucked between train tracks along the Hudson River and a two-lane asphalt forest road with city speed limits. Riverdale Park…
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Let’s get uncomfortable: A one-year-old running podcast
Last week, Let’s Get Uncomfortable, the running podcast I host with Inés Bebea and Jaime Chien, posted its twenty-fifth episode, the first of season two. Mitchell Silver: People’s Commissioner Our season one finale featured Mitchell Silver, who recently finished a seven-year tenure as New York City Parks Commissioner. Parks make all cities habitable, but they transcend ones like New York. There is a…
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Harriman State Park: Trail runner’s paradise an hour north of New York City
Harriman State Park, Region 3 of the Lower Hudson Valley, is thirty-five miles north of New York City, close enough that you can see the Manhattan skyline . . . . . . if you know where to look. But Harriman’s proximity to the densest metropolitan area in the United States of America is only part of what…
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The 800-meter track race: The intimacy of pain and pursuit
For the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the New York Times put a sprinter, a middle-distance runner, and a marathoner on the world’s fastest treadmill, which is located at the Locomotor Performance Laboratory at Southern Methodist University in Texas and tops out at 90 mph, and analyzed the differences between running fast and running far. Near the end of the…
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Let’s get uncomfortable: A new running podcast
In recent news, I started a running podcast. Or, more specifically, Inés Bebea started a running podcast, and Jaime Chien and I joined her as hosts, and, along with others, helped get it going. And it all went down in a pandemic. The podcast is called “Let’s Get Uncomfortable,” which nods to the punishment that…
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