Autumn Marathon

Winter Season

Walking across Gowanus last week with A, we passed my favorite urban garden in NYC. I remarked how pathetic the garden looked (pointing at the wilted sunflower stalks). My wife, who prefers winter said, “You don’t get it! The garden is working hard now gathering strength for the spring growing season.” Or words to that effect.

It wasn’t so cold that evening and gazing around at the austere beauty of that industrial neighborhood, her words made sense to me. You could say the same thing about my current training cycle. New York is still over nine months away. I’m running very little, but doing work at CrossFit, building strength, learning new skills and laying the foundation for an ambitious racing season ahead. This is the year my blog tells the truth: I am running an actual Autumn Marathon, my first. It’s very exciting!

I still don’t care for winter (at least not in the northeast US) and am writing this en route to a week in Florida. Still, seasonality is a very important concept in sports as in life. It’s one of my core training principles. I will post further updates in spring, summer and fall.