April 12th, 2008 the day has come to see if all my winter training would pay off. Joe and I started the day at 3:00 a.m early Sat. morning, the weather forecast had been calling for rain showers all day which I knew was going to make an already challenging course into an extreme test of my technical trail running skills

On Sunday My client Paul and I headed out to Harriman State Park to go for a long training run on the Bear Mountain 50 mile course. This course and race is part of the North Face Challenge. We started at the first visitor center off of seven lakes drive which is the mile 25 check point and preceded to run for 9 solid hours.

Today at 6:30am the gun went off and the 4th New York City Spring Road Cycling Series started!  It was a cold morning with temps hovering around 20 with the wind making things feel a bit more frigid.  Despite the temps. there was around 200+ cyclist that turned out for  the races to test their legs and see just how well their winter training went.

Another great adventure up the Empire State Building, 50 or so women gathered on the second floor then to the start...