4 Mile Run = Home - Woodhouse - Smalley Cross - Home
Date: 27th September 2006
Conditions: Mild, Dry
Notes: This was an absolute disaster of a run. For two days prior to the run I have been on a ‘Green’s only’ liquid diet. This was a huge mistake whilst I am in serious training. Mile one went fine and I felt fine, as did mile two. This was my third outing on this route so I knew that at the mile three marker things start to get harder as the majority of the second half of the run is up hill.
By the third mile marker I was starting to feel really tired and my stomach started rumbling and it felt like my stomach was going to explode. By the fourth mile marker and the hill up towards Smalley Village my energy levels were at zero and I had a chronic case of stitch. For the first time since starting my official training I had to stop for a few seconds half way up the hill. I had to stop once more before the end of the run and felt like death warmed up as I crossed the finish line. I still finished nearly two minutes faster than my first ever run on this route but I have learnt one very valuable lesson. Do not try and detox or cleanse whilst in serious training!!
Positive: I had to stop for the first time in weeks.
Negative: I learnt a very valuable nutrition lesson.
Fast Mile: 7.47
Slow Mile: 10.10
Run time: 0h34m54s
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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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