It Takes A Village… and then some
Almost four years after a fire gutted the building and with it, the book collection, our local Phoenicia Library celebrated its grand re-opening yesterday, Saturday January 17. In these days of the...
View ArticleBook Review: RUNNING THE LONG PATH by KENNETH A. POSNER
PREMISE Author sets out to run, in a record nine days, the 350-mile Long Path trail, which just about connects New York City to Albany. PROMISE “The story of what ordinary people can accomplish with...
View ArticleNAIL THE TRAILS!
How to achieve your trail running goals in ten significant steps. This past June, I completed Manitou’s Revenge, the 54-mile cross-Catskills ultra-marathon, for the first time. A few weeks later, I...
View ArticleNAIL THE TRAILS #3: Hit The Track, Jack (Or, Variety Is The Spice Of Success)
How to achieve your trail running goals in ten significant steps. (Continued from Tip #2: Consider a Coach) I have a great book on trail running which teases the reader by ending a page with the words,...
View ArticleNAIL THE TRAILS #4: Stop and Smell The Roses
How to achieve your trail running goals in ten significant steps. (Continued from Tip #3: Hit The Track, Jack (Or, Variety Is The Spice Of Success) Trail runners do get the occasional sideways looks...
View ArticleNAIL THE TRAILS #5: Listen To Your Heart
How to achieve your trail running goals in ten significant steps. (Continued from Tip #4: Stop and Smell The Roses) This could be taken literally, as in, study your heart monitor and respond...
View ArticleNAIl THE TRAILS #6: Feel The Pain!
How to achieve your trail running goals in ten significant steps. (Continued from Tip #5: Listen to your Heart) There’s no getting around this one. If you take up trail running and/or ultra running,...
View ArticleNAIL THE TRAILS #8: Welcome The Weekend
How to achieve your trail running goals in ten significant steps. (Continued from Tip #7: Give Back) Marathoners in training know the weekend “long run” all too well, but it rarely tops out at more...
View ArticleNAIL THE TRAILS #9: Plan every step. (Sometimes, literally.)
How to achieve your trail running goals in ten significant steps. (Continued from Tip #8: Welcome the Weekend) Ten days before the Escarpment Trail Run, I still couldn’t see exactly where and how I was...
View ArticleNAIL THE TRAILS #10: YOUR ONLY COMPETITION IS YOURSELF
How to achieve your trail running goals in ten significant steps. (Continued from Tip #9: Plan Every Step. Literally.) One of the reasons I love trail running is the lack of competition. Unless your...
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