Race Report

Greg Cohen on May 20th, 2012

About 20 years ago, I was in Las Vegas with an evil mentor.  This was a guy with some real talent but a consistent ability to make questionable lifestyle choices which would push him to the brink of financial ruin.  Any decision he made was almost certainly the wrong one.  He’d pass credit cards to sales [...]

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Greg Cohen on April 13th, 2012

It’s been a long cold winter.  Well, not really.  It was a short, warm winter.  Great conditions for running.  For cross training.   Well, I guess I ran.  I did go to the gym a few times.  I have seen my bike.  It’s still in the garage where I put it last fall.  Everything is [...]

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Greg Cohen on February 13th, 2012

Yesterday, I ran the Boston Buildup 20k. This race is part of a great series of races, run about every other week during the weeks leading up to the Boston Marathon. The courses all seem to be challenging and hilly, and the distances get progressively longer. I had run the 20k last year, which was [...]

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Greg Cohen on December 6th, 2011

Nice warm day on Sunday, so it was off to the races! It was the NYRR Join the Voices 5 Miler in Central Park for me.  And it turned out to be a good day. I don’t think I can oversell the weather.  It was 44° at the start according to the race results, but [...]

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Greg Cohen on November 14th, 2011

I don’t know if I mentioned it, but I pulled my hamstring last summer.  Since then, I’ve been taking it easy, cycling, etc.  This last week I got hit by a car.  Not to make anything too easy, I went to the track on Thursday (car was Tuesday) and felt like absolute crap.  Tried to [...]

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Greg Cohen on August 1st, 2011

When I was just starting running, I heard anecdotally that the 5k was a magic distance.  We all start running a little, walking a lot, then running a little more, then eating a sandwich, then running more. Once we can run three miles, the conventional wisdom goes, it all starts to come together, and we’re more comfortable conquering longer distances. [...]

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Greg Cohen on July 5th, 2011

I ran the Putnam County Classic 8 miler yesterday, a race I ran last year.  A great race that I’d highly recommend — it’s a challenging distance and a tough course, but we had well over 300 runners. I was drafted into MCing the awards, which wasn’t awkward as I placed 4th in my division so I didn’t [...]

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Greg Cohen on June 20th, 2011

I’m a geek.  And a runner.  And a running geek.  This manifests itself in many ways.  I love to read a good training plan.  My running clothes look like they were picked out each moment by someone who is visually impaired.  I’m scared of new people.  And, of course, I wear a GPS.  Which I look at constantly. [...]

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Greg Cohen on April 21st, 2011

I don’t want to bury the lede here.  I ran Boston in 3:19:13, which is both a personal record and a qualifying time for next year’s Boston.  So I should be very happy.  With nothing to complain about.  Maybe I could write a post about meeting our goals, about enjoying the crowd, loving the gift [...]

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Greg Cohen on March 26th, 2011

It was the inaugural run of  Sleepy Hollow Half Marathon.  It’s my first time running a virgin race, and I was a little nervous about logistics and the course.  There was no elevation profile to obsess on, no lore of years gone by shared by other Taconics, no assurance that the porta potty count had been developed [...]

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