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November 6, 2015
New York City Marathon Race Report
Last weekend I ran the 2015 TCS NYC Marathon! New York City, baby! It was my 10th full marathon! And my 3rd of the Abbott World Marathon Majors; I hope to do the remaining 3 someday. Before I go any further I want to shout out with A LOT of thank you’s! Thank you to my Mom who traveled to New York with me and put up with all my training. Thank you to everyone else who supported me and wished me luck! I could not have done it without you! And thank you to the volunteers and spectators of New York![…continue reading]
October 24, 2015
Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon 2015 Race Report
Last weekend I ran the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Half-Marathon, again. This was a lovely, enjoyable race. 21 half-marathons down. And with a flourish of irony, my very first half-marathon was also the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Half-Marathon in 2010. As I mentioned in my previous post about my race goals, I wanted to beat my 2010 time of 2:35:20. I did it handily and it was a great confidence booster. Date Event Goal Time Chip Time Gun Time 2015/10/18 Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Half-Marathon <2:35:20 2:22:17.3 2:43:48 Expo: I went to the expo on the Friday before the race. I was[…continue reading]
October 15, 2015
Nutrition Tracking with MyFitnessPal
As I mentioned in my September review, I’ve been using MyFitnessPal.com diligently for almost a month now. It has been a really eye-opening experience and another motivator for my weight loss journey. Adding it All Up The principle is pretty simple: Create a free profile, log into the website, and enter each and every item of food that you eat and every exercise that you do. This sounds really hard, but it gets much easier after the first day. On the first day I took photos of all my food and the nutrition labels so that I could[…continue reading]
