I feel better. By tomorrow or the day after, I should be back to my normal self. Missy feels better too. The 17-week training schedule for the London Marathon (April 24, 2016) began today. Fortunately, Mondays are rest days (see above figure for this week’s training schedule). Hence I rested today. I’m going to modify […]
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Wild heartrate fluctuations during cross training

I went to the Cross Training Challenge class at The Village taught by Mel. Mel is crazy. She is an ultrarunner. She competes in 50-mile and 100-mile trail runs and routinely wins them. She also falls down and cracks her bones regularly. Today she had a cast on her right wrist. It was pink. She’s […]
Crosstrain Wednesdays

For New York marathon training, Wednesdays are going to be cross-training days. A bit of this and a bit of that and very little running will be the agenda on Wednesdays. Today, I tried my hand at the elliptical machine at The Village for 30 minutes followed by running on the indoor track for 15 […]
Blood tests are a month away

I have another month or so before I go in for my blood tests again. I am cautiously optimistic that I will be off Xarelto (blood thinner) soon and will start bicycling again. For now, my concentration is on running. My next big race is the NYC Marathon on November 1. I have not officially […]