Did the last 10 miles with the Prospect Park Track Club on sunday and enjoyed spectacular weather, great support, and got to see a part of the course I had not seen before, the run up First Ave, the Bronx mile, and coming back down Fifth Ave into the Park. It really was a beautiful run, probably the easiest 10 miles I have ever run, which is the irony of course. We do this crazy training for twenty weeks only to get to the taper phase where we are supposed to take it easy and stay off the legs- at precisely the time when the weather is the best, the leaves are peaking, and my fitness is peaking. It is crazy really.

another way to get to the finish line…

the famous uphill finish...

I wanted to share with you the website for the athlete tracking- you will get 5K splits for me along the way; go here and you have to enter your email and a password, don’t worry, the email is deleted after the race. Submit that and then the next page allows you to add runners, either by name or bib number. Mine is 22909. Sometime after 10 am you will begin to get 5k splits which should be in the neighbourhood of 25 minutes per. For the metrically challenged 5K is 3.1 miles. You will also get the final time. Here are some landmarks:

5K; 83rd and Fourth Ave. Brooklyn–10k; 17th Street and Fourth Ave (hey I’m home!)–15k; turn from Lafayette onto Bedford Ave Brooklyn–20K; Greenpoint Ave–25k; middle of Queensboro Bridge (just the sound of a lot of breathing and groaning I am told…)–30k; 102nd and First Ave Manhattan–35k; 128th Street and Fifth Ave–40k; lower Central Park and almost done!

that’s me in the lime green tfk shirt down front-PPTC.org is the group!

I have learned a lot in this training go round, and depending on the outcome Sunday I will have some wisdom to share.