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Lesley Higgins (LHiggs)

@le_diable

New York City

About LHiggs:

Former competitive fast-pitch softball player and dancer turned steeplechaser with a best finish of 2nd in the NCAA mile and a finalist in the 2008 Olympic Trials 3000m steeplechase. Powered by the New York Athletic Club and Brooks ID.

LHiggs's Favorite Sports:

Swim, Running, Cross Country, Softball, Track & Field, Dance

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Olympic Adventures: women's beach volleyball gold medal match
posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:43pm

I'm going to state the obvious and first say that it was great to see an all-USA final in women's beach volleyball. The downside was not caring who won. It would have honestly been more fun to see one US team in each match.   Instead, I found myse...more

Olympic adventures: Event Days 2, 3 and 4
posted on August 7, 2012 at 5:54am

I finally have some downtime after a whirlwind of Olympic events. No one could accuse us of wasting our time here! Over the last few days we have seen rowing, the women's triathlon, the bronze medal men's singles and doubles badminton (which I finally kno...more

Olympic adventures: Event day 1
posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:30pm

  A quick intro & then soccer football!  A year ago after a long drawn out three weeks spent mostly in Belgium, near the end of which  I vowed never to spend that long a stretch of time in Europe again, I made the decision to pre-pay ...more

NCAA D1 Cross-Country Championships: Reid Defends Individual Title, Georgetown Stuns
posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:47pm

The women’s NCAA D1 XC Championships race was a great follow-up to a pretty boring men’s race, which featured a lot of footage of Arizona’s Lawi Lalang running alone. Silje Fjortoft of SMU tried to replicate Lalang’s domination, except she attempt...more

NCAA D1 XC Championships Preview
posted on November 21, 2011 at 8:34am

When: Monday, November 21st, noon ET. Watch live HERE Let me start by saying that I put very little stock in the official rankings in XC. So much can happen. Teams usually go in with a solid five runners, and someone inevitably has a bad day. It’s reall...more

Shoe review - Brooks PureConnect
posted on September 7, 2011 at 9:45am

  P.S. They are great for running on the beach! ...more

Quick Thursday morning IAAF World Champs recap
posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:42pm

First, I must start with the most dramatic competition of the day, at least from the perspective of this female living in the US. There was no doubt that my hopes of a US medal in the 1500m was riding on Morgan Uceny. Uceny was holding a #2 world ranking ...more

Quick Monday morning IAAF World Champs recap
posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:01pm

It was an exciting Monday morning for me, rising relatively early (though not as early as my compatriots on the west coast), to catch the evening competition on the other side of the world in Daegu, South Korea. The first women’s final on the schedule, ...more

Racing in Europe Part 5: old PR demons
posted on August 15, 2011 at 5:52pm

Part Four here One of the hardest parts about being in Europe for an extended period of time is being around people who don't want to be there. Nothing is much more of a buzz kill than excitedly landing in Europe at the start of your stint and listening ...more

Racing in Europe Part 4: the slow down
posted on August 10, 2011 at 3:51pm

Part Three here Germany sounded boring. Germany was not boring. Leuven was when things started to get boring.  On my first day in Europe, I was lucky to run into another athlete, Canadian 1500m runner Malindi Elmore, who introduced me to the ...more

Racing in Europe Part 3: reboot
posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:24am

Part 2 Here After nine blissful hours of sleep, I woke up to sunshine and the anticipation of the next part of my journey. Kim, unfortunately, did not sleep well after her late-night 5000m race and had been subjected to listening to me sleep for most of ...more

Racing in Europe Part 2: arriving is winning
posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:44am

Go back to Part One I refer to myself as a fake professional runner. This is because maybe 1-2% of my income comes from running, but it takes up closer to 75% of my time and energy. My real job is as a political consultant. My area of expertise is campai...more

Racing in Europe Part 1: the backstory
posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:23am

I am sitting in a McDonalds (free wifi) watching some sort of festival building in the square in Leuven, Belgium. I am, for the most part, bored out of my mind. I have used 44% of my iPad battery today, mostly checking Facebook, clearing out my inbox, che...more

Chia - Athlete Nutrition Brought to You by a Female Business Owner
posted on May 26, 2011 at 4:39pm

For the last several months, I have been sampling a new product - Chia Chargers. The product was designed around the Chia seed, but is also packed with a lot of other great stuff. From their website: Chia seed facts - The chia plant (Salvia hispanica), so...more

Run for the Rabbit / NYC Running Show
posted on April 29, 2011 at 7:50am

Last Friday I attended JackRabbit’s first NYC Running Show. It was a pretty good concept, nicely executed, and I hope they continue to do it annually. There were larges booths for all the different vendors, staffed with representatives from the comp...more

Pepsi MAX brings together baseball's greats & makes me wish I was a dude
posted on April 18, 2011 at 8:35pm

Time for a 360 - After a nail-biting Boston Marathon, I jumped on a subway downtown to check out the new MLB Fan Cave. First of all, what is the Fan Cave? Well, it’s somewhere in my top-10 list of jobs I wouldn’t mind doing. From their website...more

Boston Marathon - elite women quick recap + USA Olympic Trials qualifiers
posted on April 18, 2011 at 3:10pm

What an exciting day! Kim Smith almost proved me right, as she was my pick for the win, but was sidelined before 20 miles with cramping in her right calf. Her move may have looked risky, but her halfway split was pretty close to the pace of the winning t...more

Boston Marathon - Women's preview
posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:10pm

Let’s open this up by addressing the pink elephant in the room: There has been an obscene amount of media surrounding Kara Goucher coming back from having a baby. However, she ran all the way up until the day she had the baby and then resumed the da...more

Choices.... choices.... choices....
posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:09pm

... on Thursday the city lived up to my biggest debate with it, trying to be a competitive athlete and all. I believe that NYC is one of the greatest places to train in the country (Central Park never gets old and we have one of the best indoor tracks in ...more

Millrose Games recap
posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:52pm

I had the distinct pleasure of spending 6 hours court-side at Madison Sqare Garden this past Friday. And by court-side, I mean so far to the side that what I really was doing was laying on cement, breathing in construction dust. It was all worth it, thou...more

Powerlifting for Gleeks
posted on November 16, 2010 at 11:12am

 Yes, I am talking about the show Glee. I was a bit of a Gleek from the start, but I will be the first to admit that it has mostly gone downhill since the first season. The one redeeming factor this season, though, is the addition of Coach Beiste. The c...more

NYC Marathon live tweeting
posted on November 7, 2010 at 3:59am

  Today, I hope to be able to live-tweet from the ING NYC Marathon. Given the nature of the course, I will probably be at mile 8 and 24 and will probably only be able to cover the women, since they start 30 minutes before the men.So that you know wh...more

Joan Benoit-Samuelson finishes Chicago yet again, this time in 2:47:50
posted on October 10, 2010 at 1:21pm

This morning, 1984 Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit-Samuelson ran yet another sub-2:50 marathon. She has now broken 2:50 in every decade that the marathon has been an Olympic event for women. Her personal best on this Chicago course was her 18-year Ameri...more

All That Glitters: New York City's Fifth Avenue Mile
posted on September 22, 2010 at 1:07pm

In case the radio hasn't bashed you over the head with this information yet: these streets will make you feel brand new - it's a concrete jungle where dreams are made of. And also, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.   That's right, i...more

Teamsense: how to build a fan
posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:23pm

How do you make men care about women's events? How do you make sprinters care about distance runners? how do you make anyone care about field events?Last week I had the unique opportunity to attend the DecaNation meeting in Annecy, France. And by opportun...more

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