When dealing with a sore knee, trail running feels better than road running, sometimes. Old Croton Aqueduct Trail, Van Cortlandt Park, May 2021 Taking a break from running is not easy, although necessary at times. Reasons include injury recovery, a planned off-season after a serious training block, family matters (not the TV show), and many … Continue reading HOW TO RETURN TO RUNNING AFTER TAKING A BREAK (live guide…updated 5/11/2022)
Pandemic Running 2020: surveying the Bronx River Greenway 🏞
Entering the Bronx River Reservation in Bronxville. The COVID pandemic was not at its peak in mid-summer 2020 in NYC, but still very high and on its way back up. There was a slow reopening process with strict admittance policies everywhere for both essential and non-essential services, and a strict social distancing and mask-wearing protocol … Continue reading Pandemic Running 2020: surveying the Bronx River Greenway 🏞
Pandemic Running 2020: Orchard Street Runners Virtual ½ Marathon Challenge (5th try)/Virtual Brooklyn Half (2nd try)……New PR! (finally 😎)
View west from Clason Point out on the East River. Whitestone Bridge (near) and Throgs Neck Bridge (far) in the distance. *This photo was taken on a different run a few weeks earlier, not on this ½ Marathon attempt. Two months of a worldwide pandemic shutdown and a Virtual ½ Marathon Challenge had me close … Continue reading Pandemic Running 2020: Orchard Street Runners Virtual ½ Marathon Challenge (5th try)/Virtual Brooklyn Half (2nd try)……New PR! (finally 😎)
Pandemic Running 2020: Orchard Street Runners Virtual ½ Marathon Challenge (4th try: adding on the NYRR Virtual Brooklyn Half)
Purple sunrise at Fordham Rd and the Grand Concourse. After understanding that a new ½ Marathon PR would never be achieved in the short term on hilly trail, I switched back to my old stomping grounds on the streets of the east Bronx. I was a lot faster, but not fast enough for a new … Continue reading Pandemic Running 2020: Orchard Street Runners Virtual ½ Marathon Challenge (4th try: adding on the NYRR Virtual Brooklyn Half)
Pandemic Running 2020: Orchard Street Runners Virtual ½ Marathon Challenge (3rd try: back to the east Bronx)
Finally masked up pre-dawn, chasing a new ½ Marathon PR.......GO! Two afternoon tries in Van Cortlandt (one in the back hills and one on the flats) didn't deliver a new ½ Marathon PR. I was brainstorming a route that could. I needed it to either be flat or more downhill and knowing the Bronx as … Continue reading Pandemic Running 2020: Orchard Street Runners Virtual ½ Marathon Challenge (3rd try: back to the east Bronx)
Pandemic Running 2020: Orchard Street Runners Virtual 1/2 Marathon Challenge (2nd try: on the flats…)
XC Course sign, Van Cortlandt Park How do you social distance in a park when the majority of the population is not at work and there is nowhere else to go? This was the main question I mulled over during my second try of the Orchard Street Runners Virtual 1/2 Marathon Challenge, back in Van … Continue reading Pandemic Running 2020: Orchard Street Runners Virtual 1/2 Marathon Challenge (2nd try: on the flats…)
Pandemic Running 2020: Orchard Street Runners Virtual 1/2-Marathon Challenge (1st try)
follow OSR on Instagram @orchardstreetrunners Not that any of you are unaware of the pandemic that has engulfed most of the human-occupied Earth for over a year, but let me set the scene of how I experienced and dealt with it. In March 2020, the world, as most of us knew it, stopped. A new, … Continue reading Pandemic Running 2020: Orchard Street Runners Virtual 1/2-Marathon Challenge (1st try)
The Old Croton Aqueduct Trail (My Adventure, part 5: ‘New York City’)
Trail sign at the Bronx/Yonkers border, entering Van Cortlandt Park In the Spring and Summer of 2020, the time I spent on the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail was primarily in Westchester County, between Yonkers and the end (or beginning, depending on your perspective) in Cortlandt, at the New Croton Dam. There were about 15 miles … Continue reading The Old Croton Aqueduct Trail (My Adventure, part 5: ‘New York City’)
The Old Croton Aqueduct Trail (My Adventure, part 4: ‘Westchester Takeover’)
Croton Reservoir at Croton Gorge Park, Cortlandt, NY. This is the fourth installment of my story of getting to know and running the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail, Westchester County's portion specifically. Before I begin, how about a brief recap of where I have been? In part 1 I got to know the trail in Van … Continue reading The Old Croton Aqueduct Trail (My Adventure, part 4: ‘Westchester Takeover’)
The Old Croton Aqueduct Trail (My Adventure, part 3)
OCA Trail sign, Ossining Part 2 was about my lengthy 20-mile run from Hastings-on-Hudson to Archville and back, where I encountered a warning sign about a mother Doe that chases people, some wild Turkeys frolicking around the Lyndhurst Estate, and a lot more detours. Follow me as I continue North on the next portion of … Continue reading The Old Croton Aqueduct Trail (My Adventure, part 3)
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