Thursday, July 05, 2007

Milestones

This is this blog's 100th post!

It's also Week One of training for the NYC Marathon. So far, I've modified the plan, rearranged the dates of runs, and run hung-over. Hardly an auspicious start. I've also discovered that if you want to listen to Latin Podcasts while on the run, a strong headwind or heavy traffic make it really difficult to make out the words.

Tuesday: 7.3 miles in 52:55 (7:15 pace) with 10X100 striders
Wednesday: 9.1 miles in 1:11:22 (7:51 pace)
Today: 4.15 miles in 31:20 (7:33 pace)

Today's run was along the Pulaski O&B, which is great because it's the middle miles of the marathon. And I get to imagine I'm hitting the halfway point, which is here...


Slightly before you get here...


And a long way before you get there...
Queensboro Bridge

Which is after you run along this bridge...
Pulaski Bridge

And you leave Brooklyn.
Welcome to Brooklyn

5 comments:

nyflygirl said...

congrats on the century post!

and good luck with NYCM training...looks like you'll have an advantage in the middle miles, training on the course!!

A little about me... said...

Great job. What training program are you using? I'd love to run some of the course but don't know much about it except the Verazzano bridge and some of the Manhattan parts. Good luck.

JohnnyGo said...

Nice pics! Sounds like you are starting off your marathon training strong. Are you planning to train on more of the course?

runner26 said...

I have always started marathon training with a day of rest ;) That way, there's nowhere to go but up.

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