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Runnerati Running Blog
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By gcattarin on
9/29/2008 5:16 PM
T-Minus 6 days to Wineglass. Tonight I’m in upstate New York at mom’s, blogging from my old bedroom, mooching off an unknown neighbor’s unsecured wireless. In the final days, I need to keep loose, so I popped in 5 between leaving work and hopping in the car to begin the journey to Ohio before returning here for Wineglass. Calm, uneventful week.&
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By gcattarin on
9/28/2008 5:15 PM
It’s a under a week till Wineglass, and my prediction yesterday held true. The Weather Channel 10-day forecast has indeed changed already, from rain showers to perfection on race day, literally zero percent chance of rain, cool, windless, and bracketed by more perfect days. This is too good too soon, I’ll bet it will change again. Meanwhile, today was my last speed tune-up…
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By gcattarin on
9/27/2008 5:14 PM
It’s a week till Wineglass, that time when you check the Weather Channel 10-day forecast every day to see what’s coming, and hope it says rain when you’re still a week out, since it’s usually wrong. I’m happy to say that at present, for Bath NY on October 5th, it says rain.
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By gcattarin on
9/22/2008 5:12 PM
It’s over. 72 days straight, running every day without a break, until today. The streak is dead, long live the streak! No remorse, it served its purpose. It was a slump-buster extraordinaire.
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By gcattarin on
9/18/2008 5:11 PM
Fall is in the air and that can only mean nasty politics. And cross country season! We old farts tend to forget about the fun we had in high school slogging over the fields and through the woods, but I had the pleasure today of re-living it in two very distinct ways: coach-mode, and muck-mode.
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By gcattarin on
9/16/2008 5:09 PM
It’s probably bad form to steal a title from a television show I’ve never seen. So what? Flog me. It’s catchy. It works. But with the election drawing near, it’s time you all knew. I can see Russia on a map from my house. No, that’s not it.
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By gcattarin on
9/15/2008 5:08 PM
Goals are a funny thing. They’re a great motivator – if, of course, you’re a goal-driven kind of person. Or they can depress you if you don’t reach them. Setting them is tricky, since you often have no idea where you’ll fall in the spectrum between way too easy and depressingly unreachable. (Not at all that different from the crap shoot of setting sales quotas that I’ve seen in my career, but I digress…) And what do you do when you do reach them?
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By gcattarin on
9/10/2008 5:02 PM
It’s a ritual. Count the weeks till the marathon. Incrementally extend the length of your long run till you hit that magic twenty miler. Complete the twenty, and congratulations, you’ve graduated, you may pass Go! and the starting line, and chances are you’ll collect your medal (sadly, no $200) 26.21875 miles and several hours later.
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By gcattarin on
9/9/2008 5:01 PM
Would you recognize Robert Cheruiyot on the street? How about Ryan Hall? Or a past champion like Boston Billy Rodgers? (Past? No, always a champion in my book!) How about Salazar? Even having just seen him in both a Runners’ World advertisement and a commercial during the Beijing Olympics, I probably wouldn’t pick him out from a lamp post. OK, maybe a lamp post, but not a crowd.
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By gcattarin on
9/7/2008 5:00 PM
Tropical Storm Hanna roared through New England last night. It was one of those nights you have to shut the windows not because the rain is coming in, but because the roar of it falling is just plain deafening. The morning dawned gorgeous, though still a bit windy. That, and the expectation that a few key spots in my planned run by might be submerged by the deluge made me hold off till mid-day before venturing forth. Which meant it got hot. Sort of. I think.
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