I was reading an account of the 2024 Boston Marathon held Monday, April 15, which summed up the day as a “tale of two races.” The writer noted that the weather conditions were favorable for the elite runners, who started earlier in the morning before temperatures began to rise. The men’s winner was Ethiopia’s Sisay […]
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 […]