Sunny and lonely at Bethpage It's a new year and everyone seems pretty happy about that. There's reason to be optimistic: vaccines w...

Hoping for 80 in December Hello runners and the running adjacent! It's December 10th: the first night of Hanukah, the 12th day of the Ad...

Today's run on the Bethpage trail Last February an ignorant orange man told the country that COVID-19 would soon disappear with the heat...

Stay off the road and no one gets hurt These days, every conversation has something to do with COVID19, either directly (Do you have it? Do ...

Not exactly a blistering pace but I did get a blister.  Most of 2019 has gone by and we will soon start another new decade. The idea tha...

See this post on our new site The three Rs, Running, Resting and Rowin' When you think about it, a lot of running involves math. ...

Sure it is Back in August I wrote about my frustrations with running performance. At that time I thought I could improve my pace by push...

Hey Emerging Runner readers. For a change of pace, I'm vlogging instead of blogging this post which is about my recent experience get...

Usual suspects: Mike, TPP, ER, SIOR, KWL Photo courtesy of woman SIOR asked to take the picture For the first time in 21 months, the ...

Happy September, my shirt even had a post-run smiley face Labor Day greetings. I'm glad to report that I logged 80 running miles in ...

Perfect weather for running in circles today I returned to running just about eleven years ago, mostly out of impatience. I didn't m...

Dare to believe Some things are so obvious that we ignore what's right in front of us. I think I may have figured out something that...

Well Preserved this morning Happy Bastille Day! Despite meeting my distance target for June (goal was 65 miles and I actually recorded 6...

Another day, another 3.64 miles There's a common trope in film, where the lead character goes all out training for a major challenge...

All hail the OG Kinvara! Unless you are a runner who follows in the barefoot steps of Abebe Bikila , chances are that you've put som...

Saw this on a car in the REI parking lot today Happy Father's Day. My goal of more frequent postings has been stymied (only six this...

On the comeback trail Happy almost Memorial Day. It finally feels like summer and I've been doing my best to get out for runs early ...

Rat race I think this running thing is starting to work. I knew that increasing my weekly run frequency would help my overall performanc...