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No. 16

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Left: The Author at 5th Ave. and 109 (courtesy: M. Goodman Private Collection) | Right: Photo of NYT 2025 Marathon Section

The New York City Marathon is a pretty special race. This is my extremely biased opinion, but I’m not the only person who would tell you this. I have a couple of friends who have run upwards of 80 marathons (a piece) around the globe who echo this sentiment. One could literally write an entire book about the experiences and observations that transpire from running the NYC Marathon; everything from achieving entry to the race, through waking up months later and wondering if it was all a dream. Alas, apparently no one really reads books anymore. No one really reads blogs anymore, either. But I’ll continue to publish this nonsense anyway. Let’s go-Continue reading→

No. 15

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The Author at Mile 12 | Photo: Courtesy Anwar Ragep Private Collection

Guys, I had a really nice race this year. I shortened my traditional 12 week training program to 10 weeks, since I had always felt a bit “over-trained” in prior years. I’ll say that I wasn’t feeling particularly fast going into this year’s race (possibly a product of the truncated program). Because of this, and the fact that I would not be running with any friends this year, I decided to go in without any expectations for time. Instead, my goal was to just enjoy the experience, take in the city, the energy and the sights & sounds of the crowds.Continue reading→

Dia Beacon Spring 2017

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With the patchy weather over the weekend, it was good to have an indoor option on the docket. Since apparently we can’t get enough of upstate large scale art installations, we hit up the Beacon arm of Dia. It wasn’t as packed as it had been on my prior visits, which made for some nice photos.