About the “no one’s getting fat…” title. On Sunday, at the beach, I was staring into the crowd at the water’s edge and all of a sudden that line from Creeque Alley came to me. I love the Mamas and the Papas, but it’s been at least a year since I’ve heard that song. I [...]
We had a wonderful day at the beach yesterday. This particular long island beach is very close to Brooklyn and Kennedy airport, but feels very far away. There are a lot of bungalows, bike rentals shops and the beach stretches on my miles and miles. It was like having a mini vacation playing in the [...]
This morning R and I did a 10 mile run. The foul heat and humidity finally broke, and we took advantage of the relatively cooler dry temperatures to do most of our run over the Brooklyn Bridge and back.
There were hundreds of tourists clogging the bridge and we were both feeling slow, but it was [...]
Don’t I look like I’m having fun? Yeah. No. I think you can tell that it was a very tough 13.1 miles last weekend. This photo is about 8.5 miles into the race.
The vet called me while I had my head in the sink at the hair salon. I paused to speak with her and [...]
No news about the cat yet. I’ll update when I hear something, probably this evening.
Last night I had my worst run in a while. It was supposed to be four miles: slowest, faster, slow, fastest. After the first two I felt like I was dying. I didn’t have my watch with me and R subsequently [...]
I’ve been busy today. YAY!
One of my problems at work is that I have a cubicle and there are some people who talk at a crazy volume during their numerous trips to the refrigerator, which isn’t far from my desk. Even music doesn’t drown them out.
One woman is an obese, self-important blowhard. Here are some choice [...]
I was awakened by a loud storm at about 5:45am. I just noticed that there is a tornado watch for Brooklyn and Staten Island. The weather service is instructing me to find a basement and get under a piece of sturdy furniture. That is not helpful; the basement of my building, like most buildings near [...]
E arranged for the car service to pick us up and they came to get me at 5AM. I’m embarrased to say that after leaving at 4 for the triathlon only 2 weeks ago, 5 AM seemed luxuriously late. After triathlon, everything seems so manageable–all I needed was my clothes, sneakers, race number, my chip [...]
Just a quick post to say…it’s OVER! I did it!
I did my race in a 12:40 pace, which is great considering that the last time I ran more than 8 miles was in May. Miles 9-12.5 were brutal, and that leg was close to a 13.5 minute mile pace; I did a lot of walking [...]
Yesterday Miss P and I went to the vet. The cat WAS NOT happy to be there. “Hi big head,” the vet said to my newly thin Pumpkin. The cat tried to leave the room. She howled and howled with her ears pooched down and her face mashed up like a cartoon as the vet [...]
