Going to keep this one short and sweet: Was not expecting anything on a cold 14 degree morning, mostly survival. I ran with a friend and we breezily chatted our way around the park twice, probably annoying a great many other runners-in fact one race volunteer-curmudgeon admonished in our direction, “I wanna hear less talking and see more runnin’!” Guess we were that thing we hate. At least no foot flapping.
Did not realise until the end that a pb was in my grasp, we had started far back in the pack, lazed our way through the first two miles (9:02, 8:39) but then settled into some 8:20′s and 8:15′s for the rest of the way save my potty break at mile 6 which cost us a 9:30 and me a sub 1:50:00 finish…
I will save the sub 1:50 half goal for another day. I have however bested my previous half (1:54:51) by a goodly 4 minutes and change, and this in the winter under less than ideal conditions. Obviously it reflects simply having logged over 500+ miles since I began in June. It’s nice to be faster even if I don’t always feel faster.
This was the scene at 6:35am heading across the Manhattan Bridge. Thinking a Lumix or Dlux-4 is in my future specifically for running pictures. Thanks to “Si” for keeping me occupied those 10 miles…after which he dropped me (again) like a dirty shirt…