The After the Leaves Half Marathon on Nov. 26 was the final race in the Onteora Runners Club 2023 Grand Prix. This 10-race series was designed to test a runner’s versatility and provide the participants with a range of affordable races throughout the year. The series started with the Kingston Classic 10K on April 28. […]
In the 1980s, I would have been described as a long-distance runner, a marathoner. When I turned 40 in 1994 I got tired of the marathon training grind. It began to feel like a second job. Under the guidance of Mike Barnow, the coach of the Westchester Track Club, I began to focus on shorter-distance […]
On Saturday evening, Sept. 2, I attended a great “grassroots” event hosted by Glenn Lapolt and Melissa Gruver-Lapolt in New Paltz. The event was in their neighborhood and started and finished at their house. The sixth annual Under the Stars Morning Star Run was three loops on Morning Star Drive totaling 3.15 miles. It began at 7:45 p.m., when […]