Catskills

NAIL THE TRAILS #3: Hit The Track, Jack (Or, Variety Is The Spice Of Success)
How to achieve your trail running goals in ten significant steps. (Continued from Tip #2: Consider a Coach) I have a great book on trail running which teases the reader...
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October 27, 2017

NAIL THE TRAILS #2: Consider a Coach
How to achieve your trail running goals in ten significant steps. Number 2: CONSIDER A COACH (Continued from Tip #1: Set Distant, Attainable Goals) Most amateur American runners probably left...
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October 26, 2017

NAIL THE TRAILS #1: Set Distant, Attainable Goals
How to achieve your trail running goals in ten significant steps. (continued from Introduction) Number 1: SET DISTANT, ATTAINABLE GOALS New Year is a perfect time to set one’s resolutions...
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October 25, 2017

NAIL THE TRAILS!
How to achieve your trail running goals in ten significant steps. This past June, I completed Manitou’s Revenge, the 54-mile cross-Catskills ultra-marathon, for the first time. A few weeks later,...
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October 24, 2017

O POSITIVE
I have to give props to the O Positive Festival, which took place in the city of Kingston, New York, from October 6-8. I have been around this innovative event since its...
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October 20, 2017

Book Review: RUNNING THE LONG PATH by KENNETH A. POSNER
PREMISE Author sets out to run, in a record nine days, the 350-mile Long Path trail, which just about connects New York City to Albany. PROMISE “The story of...
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April 7, 2017

A Monday Musing
Being vegan and athletic, I very rarely get sick. But the latter lifestyle choice does occasionally make for exhaustion – and never more so than if I’m training for a...
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March 9, 2015

It Takes A Village… and then some
Almost four years after a fire gutted the building and with it, the book collection, our local Phoenicia Library celebrated its grand re-opening yesterday, Saturday January 17. In these days...
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January 18, 2015