Another weekend, another race in Brooklyn. This past Sunday, I ran around Prospect Park not once, not twice, but three times for the Cherry Tree 10 Miler. Originally scheduled for February, this “race for the hardcore” gets a great turnout every year thanks to its versatility: You can cover the 10 miles as a three-person […]
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Carrie Stevens’ 2014 Philadelphia Half-Marathon Recap
Recent PostsAny day you can run 13.1 miles is a good day. Any day you can do it faster than ever before is a great day. And any day where your friends and family are there is an awesome day. This past Sunday proved to be one awesome day. Let’s backtrack a bit first. As a competitive age-group […]
Ethan Fleck’s Nutrition Experience
Blogs Educated Running AthletesIf you live in a part of the country where there are Kroger grocery stores, you can find a little item in the frozen food section called the “Kroger Personal 3-Cheese Pizza”. It costs about a dollar on sale. If you look at the nutrition label in between the fat and sodium and all the un-natural ingredients (like I used to […]
Three Ways to Recover from a Terrible Week
Blogs Educated Running AthletesAround the Fleck household, Sundays are for recovery, planning, laundry, cleaning, lunch making, sorting, and other things we never seem to have time for during the zippy workweek. The week ahead becomes totally disorganized if Sundays don’t go as planned, which was the case last Sunday after my wife and I attended our first concert […]