December 15th, 2024
I view my 2024 as mostly successful. After all, I hit the ten-year milestone with running and I still have room to improve. I set personal bests in all my races except the road mile. Though with that, I only run the mile once a year and never really train for it. I also placed […]
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October 2nd, 2024
I felt excited and anxious as I packed up and caught an Uber with my family to JFK airport. My anxiety dealt more with the not so fun logistics of airport security. In fact, some snooty Europeans on line in passport control were almost reminded that they were still in Queens, NY—know what I mean? […]
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June 4th, 2024
Ten years ago, I started my running journey off a bet. Although I had jogged occasionally during my time as a student in Kansas City and a few years prior while living in Harlem, June 2014 marks my beginning. While I wrote about my running origins a few years ago on my Musings blog, I […]
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May 19th, 2024
At 3:30 am, I woke up with confidence and felt that I would set a personal record in the half-marathon. I set my last personal best for the 13.1 mile distance on the old NYC Half Marathon course during my preparation for the 2017 Boston Marathon. I achieved the 1:15:39 PR right before the birth […]
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