3 Mile Run = Breadsall Priory – Morley Hayes - Home
Date: 22nd October 2006
Conditions: Cool, Dry
Notes: Today is one week before the Worksop Half Marathon. I am facing one major problem in the build up to this race. Whether to run it or not! The pain I have been experiencing in my left shin has not eased up at all and I am starting to wonder if the pain is the start of shin splints?
I decided that my usual Sunday long run should be replaced by a shorter ‘test’ run to see how my leg felt at the end of the run. I got a lift to the Gym where I did a twenty minute warm up in the pool followed by a stretch session to prepare myself for the run home.
Having done a full warm up I felt ready for the three mile run home but I really took at steady as I did not care about my time but more about whether my leg will endure thirteen miles in seven days time. It turned out that my first mile was well under eight minutes but I thought I was going really slowly and my leg felt ok.
As I got to about half way into mile two I did feel my leg start to ache slightly but nothing major. I was still running really slowly and this was shown as mile two was nearly one minute slower than mile one.
As I passed the mile two marker and approached the dreaded hill up to Smalley I was apprehensive as to how I would be physically once at the top. It turns out I was fine and the aching in my leg never got any worse. I crossed the finish line thinking if this is all the pain will come to then I will run the race. I am seeing a Physiotherapist on Tuesday however to get a professional opinion. If she clears me then its Woksop here I come!!
Positive: I believe I am ready for the Half Marathon.
Negative: have still not ran over 10 miles and the Half Marathon is here.
Fast Mile: 7.43
Slow Mile: 8.51
Run time: 0h25m03s
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New York City
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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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