Sunday, October 29, 2006
So apparently I have my post already written for me:
"Went to Central Park to run a 5-mile race. Ran it in about 48 minutes, then went out to breakfast."
And while this pretty much sums up the morning, I think I would like to share a few more thoughts about the run. It seems that many who are not from New York are under the impression that New Yorkers are rude and impatient folk. However, I noticed today that this does not include the New York runner. As Danny mentioned, there were over 6000 people in the Poland Springs 5 mile race this morning, and after the horn blew at 9am to start the race, it took a good few minutes before I got a chance to start running. There was no pushing or shoving or racing ahead. After the few thousand people ahead of me started running, I walked and got to the starting point and then the running commenced. I was quite shocked at the calmness that surrounded me as the race started. In the beginning I found it hard to move at the pace I wanted but eventually people spread out.
I finished the first mile at 8:50 pace but slowed down for the remaining four miles. I was happy that I kept my pace under 10 minute miles. At some points I felt like I was running quite slowly and at other times I was breezing past my fellow runners. I don't have a Garmin so it's hard to say what my exact pace was but I enjoyed the challenge of running and finding an empty space to move in to and move forward past the next runner--kinda like driving on the highway.
I enjoyed the many costumed runners in honor of Halloween. My favorite was a guy that was holding handle bars and ringing a bell while fellow runner friends surrounded him and said "Make room for Lance."
I want to congratulate my friend David on running the marathon in D.C. today. I look forward to hearing about his run. I also want to wish good luck to my friend Mimi who is a fellow "running skirt" and will be running the marathon next week.
I'm quite enjoying this new running hobby and am hoping that there will be many more runs in the future.
"Went to Central Park to run a 5-mile race. Ran it in about 48 minutes, then went out to breakfast."
And while this pretty much sums up the morning, I think I would like to share a few more thoughts about the run. It seems that many who are not from New York are under the impression that New Yorkers are rude and impatient folk. However, I noticed today that this does not include the New York runner. As Danny mentioned, there were over 6000 people in the Poland Springs 5 mile race this morning, and after the horn blew at 9am to start the race, it took a good few minutes before I got a chance to start running. There was no pushing or shoving or racing ahead. After the few thousand people ahead of me started running, I walked and got to the starting point and then the running commenced. I was quite shocked at the calmness that surrounded me as the race started. In the beginning I found it hard to move at the pace I wanted but eventually people spread out.
I finished the first mile at 8:50 pace but slowed down for the remaining four miles. I was happy that I kept my pace under 10 minute miles. At some points I felt like I was running quite slowly and at other times I was breezing past my fellow runners. I don't have a Garmin so it's hard to say what my exact pace was but I enjoyed the challenge of running and finding an empty space to move in to and move forward past the next runner--kinda like driving on the highway.
I enjoyed the many costumed runners in honor of Halloween. My favorite was a guy that was holding handle bars and ringing a bell while fellow runner friends surrounded him and said "Make room for Lance."
I want to congratulate my friend David on running the marathon in D.C. today. I look forward to hearing about his run. I also want to wish good luck to my friend Mimi who is a fellow "running skirt" and will be running the marathon next week.
I'm quite enjoying this new running hobby and am hoping that there will be many more runs in the future.
# posted by tinablue87 @ 11:08 PM 
