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The Long Run
The story of the American marathon is an extended 26.2-mile legacy about barriers — and, perhaps more specifically, breaking them. I should know. I’ve done more than a few marathons at this point....
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The Long Run: Bikram Running
One sultry afternoon in New York — the type of day when weathermen chatter excitedly about Ozone Alerts and even the air seems to sweat — I bid goodbye to the reassuring cool of my “garden level”...
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The Long Run: Victory Does Not Come in a Skirt
Not long ago this summer, I found myself in the final throes of a race. My organs were treading a fine line with failure, my lungs seemed to be bleeding, my legs filled with nails. The finish remained...
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The Long Run: Notes on a Taper
For the marathon runner, few weeks are so humbling as those just before the big day. Gmail transforms into an archive of emails from race organizers that are hollow in their insistence that “all the...
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