I have totally failed in my goal of keeping my blog updated!! I haven’t written in a very long time!! So many things have happened that now it is even tough to try to summarize what I have been up to! I don’t want to spend much time trying to tell you all the things that I have done but will try to do a brief summary and then once again try to go back to normal posting J How many times have I said this??
Since my last post I have run several races, the most important once are the Queens half (July), Conservancy run for Central Park 4 miler (first PR in a long time!), Berlin Marathon(September – I will have an special report on this one) and Staten Island Half (October).
Training has been going great and I have been doing speed classes all summer. I PRd in Berlin even though I was sick for the previous 2 weeks and I wasn’t feeling totally recovered that day.
The second half of the year was more about quality on my runs than distance. As per my running related volunteer work, I have paced several long runs as the Long Training Run 1(July) and 2 (August) and the 3 Bridges Run (October), all 20 millers and I also have been a mentor in Team for Kids all summer. I really enjoy to do these activities and help other runners with their training as they also help me to stay motivated! Irena blowed away my 100 bike ride, yeap it was schedule for that weekend so it got cancelled. They couldn't reschedule it for another weekend so now with the fall here I will need to wait until next year to sign up again for it....bummer.
Next challenge is NYC Marathon in just 10 days, I haven’t decided yet if I am racing it or just doing a fun run....sounds crazy to say that you do a marathon for fun right?, may be I will refrain for saying this to non runners :) as they already have enough material to call me crazy. I did push a lot in Berlin…I gave everything I had and I don’t want to push my body after what happened there (details to come!!). I got the PR I wanted for this year so I don’t feel the need to race NYC but who knows….maybe I have a good day J
