3 Mile Run = Home – Smalley Block – Fairfield Road – Dobholes Lane
Date: 13th September 2006
Conditions: Mild, Dry
Notes: Today was my second run since starting my official training schedule. My aim is to be ready for a marathon in January so I can then taper off ready for my holiday in March. Once returning from my holiday I will then begin serious training, so I do not just finish the marathon but I finish well.
As for today it was a steady run. I am now finding my beginner pace and am averaging seven to eight minute miles. I ran a different route to Monday and found the first two miles to be ok. During the second mile at Fairfield Road I found my pace and form to be excellent and I believe some of this was due to imagining that I was in that marathon with people cheering.
I did struggle during the last mile and the sharp pain just below my diaphragm slowed me down yet again. I finished the route twenty three seconds slower than Monday so I now have a base and a steady three mile time to improve upon.
Positive: I picked up my form and pace up during mile two.
Negative: I am still getting the sharp pain just below my diaphragm.
Fast Mile: 7.50
Slow Mile: 8.11
Marathon time: 0h23m56s
“Top results are reached only through pain. But eventually you like this pain.”
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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