Day 4 of 7 in the Blogging My Birthday Week Series
I have mentioned before, but not very often, that I am one of the semi-regular personalities on a local running podcast called the NY Running Show. Each week a bunch of opinionated runners of all ages and speeds get together to discuss what’s gone on in pro and amateur racing in our preferred city. Last Sunday, we discussed the New York City Half-Marathon, and I gave the verbal report of what you’ve already read here. I hope you subscribe to our long-winded but charming podcast!…. Chris McDougall commented on my blog when his book Born to Run first came out, and now he’s responded to a comment JG of Run Westchester posted in response to McDougall’s NYTimes.com online feature about how trail runners who don’t have a training schedule are more virtuous than road runners who like to log their miles. Or something like that…. If you are in NYC on Sunday May 1, please support my efforts along with the other members of the Team Fox Young Professionals to help fund the research for a cure to Parkinson’s 
Disease. We are holding a Sunday Funday brunch at Aspen in Midtown. Tickets for open bar & brunch buffet are only $42 if you order now, and we’ll have fun raffles & live music, too…. On March 31, I’ll be going to see this documentary about some crazy person’s quest to run 75 marathons in 75 days. It’s called My Run, and I’ll be at the AMC 25 theater in Times Square, 7 PM showing. Who’s in?… My next race is April 17 in Boston. No, not the marathon (not yet, anyway). This is the 5k, the day before…. Two pieces of bad news about my beloved Queens. 1) the libraries have stopped buying new books due to budget cuts, and 2) the vote went through today to name my bridge after Ed Koch. Oh, the indignity…. On the up side, it still is a delight to run down off the 59th Street Bridge into Queens through this clean and pretty plaza. They just finished the construction on the Manhattan pedestrian approach, too… By now you must be dying to know, Why oh why are these ellipses for my glutes? because last night’s Pilates class literally kicked my butt, and my posterior has been pained all day long. I’m hoping that if I dedicate this blog post to them, my glutes will stop their whining… And lastly, I tried this eating plan for a month–basically cut out all sugar from my diet–and I didn’t lose a single pound. This means I am still too plump to fit into the dress I wanted to wear for my party tonight. Here’s a picture of me in the dress back in July, when I was about 10 pounds lighter, but also still married.
Pigtails Flying 
Its fun when the famous people comment on our stuff….. makes me think it’s worth it!
Let’s see, plus 10 pounds but minus one ex. I’d say you lost a ton of excess unneeded weight! 😉
Have a most grand and happy birthday!
The brunch fundraiser sounds fun! Wish I could make it; I’ll be in Philly running the Broad Street Run. I’ve been thinking about going to see the film screening next week, I’ll let you know if I decide to.
I’m in for the film. See you there.
I saw the news about your bridge in the paper this morning and thought of you. That sucks. I still refuse to call my bridge anything other than the Triboro. And, I plan on continuing to refer to the Queensboro by its proper name too.
Oh yeah. And same goes for me & the Triboro.
I don’t subscribe, but download it when someone like you or Joe reminds me about it. Speaking of which, it’s been a while since I’ve seen Joe fired up like that. Good stuff.
On the sugar-free diet thing… I think it would work, but there’s a lot of hidden sugar in foods. For example, US bread is very sweet – we noticed that straight away. Maybe more than a week of it too. An Aussie book: http://sweetpoison.com.au/
P.S. Happy birthday! It’s Friday down here.
Yeah, I was really rigorous about avoiding hidden sugars. I ate only whole, fresh foods. No “white” foods, no processed foods, only things I prepared myself out of vegetables and natural organic ingredients.