Category: NYC

• The Only Thing Weathered Was His Hat

  Around mile seven of the Bronx 10-miler, I find the perfect walking mentor. Then he checks his watch.

  

• Full Pockets

  Three weeks to my ninth NYC Marathon, Pocket Time in the Atacama Desert, a charging German shepherd, and preparing for awe instead of disaster.

  

• Two Notes at Once

  A Tuvan throat singing soundtrack, a DNF in the Gobi Desert, and the two notes my body was singing that I only half heard.

  

• Developed, Not Built

  25 years after 9/11, four deserts, and what the back of the pack knows about resilience.

  

• Tune Up, Wake Up: Eleven Weeks to the Marathon

  Better to find out today than 11 weeks from now on First Avenue at mile 17 of the NYC Marathon.

  

• The Penance Miles: What the Music Made Room For

  When I drank heavily, I never ran with music. I called it purism. It wasn’t. Running was repayment. On penance, music, and what the muse actually needs.

• The Rule of Thirds: A Runner’s Guide to the Days That Suck

  I used to run 10 miles the morning after drinking everybody under the table and call it a badge of honor. Now I run by a different rule: the rule…

  

• Hope & Possibility

  The Achilles Race had a name. It took me four miles to realize it was also an instruction.

  

• The Marathon Training Plan I Abandoned and the One I Just Signed Up For

  Last fall the Sober Sis community pulled me away from my running training plan. The eighth marathon happened anyway. Now there’s a ninth and a Tuesday 5:30am alarm.

  

• Navigating Life Lessons on a NYC Subway

  A stranger named Brendan on a Brooklyn subway platform said exactly the right thing at exactly the right moment. On NYC connections, Mercury in retrograde, and the people who show…