This week I’m cutting back my running mileage to 38 from the 55-57 miles per week I’ve been running the last 3 weeks and am doing just one formal workout, which I did yesterday—a 40-minute up-tempo run at slightly slower than acidosis threshold effort on rolling roads in Rancho Santa Fe, which is a cut-back …
Went on a 19-mile run yesterday, longest run in 12 years. I almost always run on my own, but this time I ran with an attendee at a conference I spoke at in San Diego last year. We started at 6:20 am to beat the heat. She said she was nervous about running with me. …
Today I ran 18 miles (approximately, since I don’t have a GPS) as part of my New York City Marathon preparation. It’s been very hot in San Diego (September and October are the hottest months here), so I woke up at 5:30, ate a small breakfast of a bowl of Rice Krispies cereal (don’t judge …
I love magic. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a magician. One of my favorite illusions is Metamorphosis. First performed by Houdini, an assistant ties up the magician in a sack and locks him in a metal trunk. The assistant then stands on top of the trunk, and raises a curtain in …
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10 weeks until the New York City Marathon! I’m enjoying the end of my recovery week. Only 35 miles this week, after the last two weeks of 50. Next week, I’m building up to 55 miles, including one acidosis threshold run of 4-5 miles, one long tempo run of 9-10 miles over rolling terrain a …
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There has been a lot of commotion lately about Tabata training. Everyone in the fitness industry is using it. It’s based on the research of Izumi Tabata and his colleagues at the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Japan. The protocol they used, which was based on the training that Japanese speed skaters were …
Now that the Maccabiah Games in Israel are over, I’ve turned my attention to the New York City Marathon in November, which I’m running as part of the American Cancer Society’s DeterMination program in memory of my mother, who passed away of metastatic breast cancer in 2010. I’ve been wanting to do something in memory …
Well, the Maccabiah Games are over. I’m not sure where to begin… The half marathon in Ramat Gan in Israel was one of the most difficult races I’ve ever run. The race started at 9:20 at night to beat the heat. But it was still VERY humid! Between the constant incline/decline/incline/decline of the course that …
Maya Angelou once said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” So, to avoid more agony in my life and at the urging of friends, colleagues, and my agent, I’ve started a blog to tell my untold stories. Welcome. This blog will be a potpourri of thoughts on running and …