I finished the 26.2-mile jaunt through the five boroughs Sunday. Here’s a synopsis of my run.

BEFORE THE START runners are shipped by bus from Manhattan to Staten Island where we sit in 40-degree, ultra windy conditions for three hours. I wear…

This Sunday, at 10 a.m., for the second time in my life, I’ll embark on a 26.2-mile journey through all 5 burroughs of New York City. I ran New York in 2001, right after Sept. 11.

Training this past week was unnervingly…

Oddly, I just realized I can tie all these thoughts together because of a common theme — New York City. Read on.

Last week, a young New York City school teacher who clocked the fastest time at the Nike Women’s Marathon…

Last week I fizzled out at about mile 11 of what was supposed to be a 20-mile run. About an hour later, I forced myself to go out and run an additional 4.5 miles for a total of 15.5 miles. I thought…

I was supposed to run 20 miles Saturday. That didn’t happen.

At mile 7, I was feeling horrible. My legs were heavy and felt like they were pushing through mud. I was breathing hard, which is unusual. I looked like the…

Monday: 6.6 miles
Tuesday: 4.5-mile fun run with Dr. Ed Wolfgram
Thursday: 4.5-mile fast run
Saturday: 18-mile slow run in 2 hours 53 minutes
Total: 33.5 miles

Saturday’s 18-mile run was really hard. I think I may have gone out too quickly on the first 10 miles, because…

Last week was a good week. On Monday, I ran 10 miles to sort of make up for not doing the 16-mile run that I was supposed to do 2 days earlier. Tuesday, I ran 4.5-miles with Dr. Ed Wolfgram.…

So……yesterday.

What a mess for Lewis & Clark participants and organizers.  David Spetnagel & company at Fleet Feet have posted on their website Lewis & Clark 2008: You Tried; We Tried which explains why and how they made the decision to go ahead…