When I moved to Modena over 10 years ago one of the selling points to choosing this city in the Emilia Romagna region was that it had an active running community. Local races every weekend, lots of sports clubs, plenty of parks and one really great annual running event. On 31 January

I’m not sure how the rest of the world works, but here in Italy it’s really difficult to publicize any event unless you have oodles of money. But running events don’t have large budgets unless you happen to be the New York Road Runners, and even then I’m pretty

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As I ran over the finish line I looked at my watch: 5:01:57. My first asinine thought was “Where could I have saved two minutes?” followed by “five hours ago you didn’t know if you’d make it to the finish line so shut up.” End of conversation. I got my

I stood on the Verrazzano Bridge lined up with the second wave of runners and sang “America the Beautiful”. I closed my eyes for a minute just to feel the moment. I was calm and happy to just be there. Plus, lately when I line up for a marathon I tend to forget my one huge advan

This summer I was into my very first month of marathon specific training for NYCM ’11 when I felt something “off” in my right hamstrings. A lot of people think that the most successful athletes are the ones that run fast or have a handle on their nutrition, but truth be told t

Since the New York City Marathon was the very first marathon that I ran, the NYCM expo was also my first running expo. I just assumed that all running expos in the world would be just as fabulous and wonderful. I was sadly disappointed that they were not, but I still will go to ANY ex

I’m in New York City this week. It’s a city I absolutely adore, not because it has so much to offer and not because it really is the city that never sleeps. I love New York City because this is where I fell in love with running. Growing up in California I’d always been an ou

I love other languages but it took me about a million years to learn to pronounce “Tjejmilen”. It’s Swedish and if you break it down it’s two words meaning “girl” and “mile”. This makes no sense since the Tjejmilen race was six miles or