3 Mile Run = Home – Smalley Block (x4) – Stuart’s House
Date: 11th September 2006
Conditions: Humid, Dry
Notes: I have now set myself an official training schedule for the next eighteen weeks. This is the time it takes to train for a marathon. I am doing this now as I have quit the football team so I can prepare for the marathon and put my all my energy and focus into it.
Today is the fifth anniversary of that awful day in New York on September 11th 2001. My run today will be three miles. This run will be dedicated to the 2700 plus people that sadly lost their lives on that horrific day. I started the run with high hopes of setting my mile PB and I achieved this goal on my first mile. I did however start to suffer with my breath at mile two. I found this run harder than my last two but I believe that this was somewhat due to the course being repeated round Smalley block which I found very boring.
The next time I do a 3 miler I will be sure to run a route that never repeats itself. I did however run my second best predicted marathon time but this was only for three miles. The measure will be against next Monday’s three miler.
Positive: I set a new mile PB.
Negative: I found this run harder than my last two.
Fast Mile: 7.17 (PB)
Slow Mile: 8.11
Run time: 0h23m33s
"The pain doesn't last forever, but the memories will".
New York City
"Running 26 miles around this place.....I can think of nothing better"
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The Five Boroughs
"There's more to this place than Manhattan"
Staten Island
"Only the first half mile is spent on Staten Island as you immediately leave across the Varrazano-Narrows bridge into Brooklyn"
Brooklyn
"Almost half the race is spent in Brooklyn, where many different neighbourhoods and cultural changes are passed through"
Queens
"The race enters Queens at exactly the half way point by crossing the Pulalski Bridge, over Newton creek, where you get your first amazing view of the City. The next 3 miles are spent here until crossing the challenging Queensboro Bridge over the East river."
Manhattan
"The first of two visits into Manhattan comes at mile 16 as you leave the Queensboro Bridge. Greeted by thousands of screaming spectators makes this one of the most memorable moments of the race, before the 4 mile stretch up First Avenue towards the Bronx"
Bronx
"At mile 20 you cross the Willis Avenue Bridge into the Bronx where little over a mile is run before returning to Manhattan across the Madison Avenue Bridge, where you see the Yankee Stadium, which has to be the highlight of the short trip across the Harlem river"
Manhattan 2
"As you arrive back in Manhattan the course proceeds down Fifth Avenue for 3 miles before entering Central Park for the final push and that moment that will last forever."
Varrazano-Narrows (Staten Island-Brooklyn)
Pulalski Bridge (Brooklyn-Queens)
Queensboro Bridge (Queens-Manhattan)
Willis Avenue Bridge (Manhattan-Bronx)
Madison Avenue Bridge (Bronx-Manhattan)
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