Time: 28:00
Distance: 4 mi.
New Year's Day jog with 3/4 of the Brown '06 contingent. Craigger, Tushar and I were missing Jokin, who was holding it down on the left coast, but it was good to sweat it out with these guys. This was an easy run, and I'm not going to ruin Craigger's "4 mile" loop by telling him that it is short. Tushar even made the decision to wear pants without consulting anyone! Maybe things do change as the years pass...
Time: 85:00
Distance: 13.25 mi.
Map
Workout: 6 x 4:00 hard / 2:00 easy; shooting for some sub-tempo pace for the hard sections
Morning run in Central Park from Craig's apartment. As I headed out the door snow was coming down just lightly, but in the park there was more serious snow with significantly more wind which made the going a bit difficult. For the Fartlek, I focused on the effort, rather than trying too hard to figure out my pace. For one of the slightly uphill and windy sections I believe I split a 2:40 (5:20 pace) half mile, which is obviously a bit slow for this type of workout, but I was working fairly hard to be there.
I finished the run feeling a bit tired, but looking forward to an afternoon to relax and the New Year's Eve festivities.
Time: 77:10
Distance: 11 mi.
Manhattan from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, just south of the Brooklyn Bridge
Morning run with Nick on a loop over the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan, and back to Brooklyn over the Williamsburg Bridge. My legs were a bit beat from yesterday, but I enjoyed getting a historical tour along the way from Nick, who is becoming an expert on the local urban history.
Time: 120:43
Distance: 18 mi.
A path winding through the middle of Prospect Park
After a late night in Manhattan, I waited most of the day to get out the door for this week's long and supposedly easy run. I was overtired, underfed, and dehydrated heading into the run. When I started to feel not so great in the first 30 minutes, I knew I was likely heading towards the well. This was definitely the case, and despite it being a beautiful and warm afternoon in Brooklyn, I struggled throughout a few different loops of Prospect Park. When I could, I raced joggers to keep myself focused. Once I got back it took me about two hours and a lot of water and food to start to feel normal. Yikes.
Time: 71:30
Distance: 11.5 mi.
The boathouse at Prospect Park
The stately Brooklyn Museum, which I ran past on the way back to Eliot's place
Eliot and I ran in the afternoon from his house in Brooklyn. We ran over to Prospect Park and looped around on some trails and fields in the park for about 20 minutes before getting back to the entrance. He headed home and I kept going, this time on the ~3.5 mile road loop that runs around the park (check out the new "automatic" line drawing on gmap-pedometer... very cool). Now, I was planning on doing one loop, adding on a little more and calling it a day, but once I saw markings every 1/4 mile I took my general boredom out on the soles of my shoes and started to hammer. I did the first loop at 6:00 pace and just a bit under and went right into a second loop at 5:45-50 pace. I was over 10 miles by the time I got back to the entrance again, and starting to get pretty tired, so I headed back to his place.
My body felt okay, overall, though the pace did feel like a bit of an adjustment. When I finished I had some soreness behind my right knee, which I suspect is an extension of the right hammy issues.
Time: 80:14
Distance: 11 mi.
The Manhattan Bridge and skyline from the Brooklyn Bridge
I met Nick early before his first day of work at the New York Road Runners. We ran from Brooklyn to Manhattan on the Manhattan Bridge and back into Brooklyn on the Brooklyn Bridge. Despite dealing with cars and traffic, it was a great way to see the some of Brooklyn and the beautiful bridges on the east side of Manhattan.
Time: 84:21
Distance: 12 mi.
Bridge in Central Park
A fairly nice run in Central Park from Craig's place on West 48th. I headed up there with Craig and Cory who were shooting for about 5 miles and ran to the reservoir. After they turned back I did a big loop around the northern section of the park and then a smaller loop around just the reservoir. I was shooting for 80 minutes, but miscalculated a bit at the end. I was fairly hot and dehydrated by the time I got back.
Time: 86:30
Distance: 12.5 mi.
Mid-afternoon run with Neely (and Craig on his bike) in Central Park. Body is pretty beat in general and the sore throat is somewhat worse, but once I get on a semi-normal sleep pattern again, I will definitely feel a lot better. I was a bit under-dressed as well and was pretty cold most of the way. Between the bridal path and the various other paths and the big road loop, Central Park seems like a pretty great place to train.
Time: 100:00
Distance: 14.5 mi.
The morning after arriving in New York I ran from Craig's place in Midtown up to Central Park (6-7 mins) for a run with Ari, Neely, Sarro, and Jeff and Lena (for part). Most of those guys were running a bit less, but Neely (who is training for the Austin Marathon) was up for a longer effort. No real plan... we just looped around in the park. Starting to get a bit of a sore throat and I was pretty tired, but was happy to get this much in. Don't know how easy it will be to get milage later in the week.
