New York City Marathon 2014 Write Up

Waking up in the middle of the night and feeling my neck hurts, right ankle hurts, the bottom of my feet hurts and I was extremely thirsty; I opened my eyes and saw the reflections of New York high-rises in the window. “Ah.. I am in pain because I just ran a marathon today,” and not just Read the rest of this entry »

On Path to New York City Marathon IV

Sunday 10/26, I laced up my shoes and went for an 8ml taper run, with Michael and Venkat. It’s very foggy and chilly in the valley, but I can’t think of a better way to wrap up this season and Read the rest of this entry »

On Path to New York City Marathon III

Sun Sept 28th, I was up at 5:00am again, which seems to be my routine for every weekend lately. Since I was up very early on Sat and was tired from on my feet for a very long time, I was in bed around 8:30pm.

I put on the running outfit that Read the rest of this entry »

On Path to New York City Marathon II

Last night I was invited to a New York City Marathon party hosted by Mike, and it felt like I have walked million light-years from last year’s NYC Marathon party. This time, it actually looks more promising that I would actually Read the rest of this entry »

On Path to New York City Marathon

July 1st, I kicked off my 18 weeks training for NYC Marathon, and I want to make it to the start line and finish NYC Marathon this year more than anything else.

After yesterday’s 5ml shake out run, someone in Versailles  congratulated me for Read the rest of this entry »

On Road to Recovery — Crawl, Walk, Run

When I found myself getting an entry spot for New York City Marathon, I could NOT believe how lucky I was. After trying my luck with the lottery system for couple years, I had pretty much gave up the idea of running NYC in this life time already :-p. The odds and luck hasn’t been on my side, and the qualifying time is even tougher than Boston;  therefor I did not even Read the rest of this entry »