2 Mile Run = Home – Dobholes Lane – Home
Date: 25th December 2006
Conditions: Cool, Dry
Notes: When I started my training many months ago I said to myself “I’m going to go running on Christmas Day”. I awoke Christmas morning feeling fantastic (probably due to the two mile run home Christmas Eve, having been unable to secure a taxi).
Feeling fantastic I decided to go for a short two mile run. I did plenty of stretching and warming up before setting out. I got lots of funny looks form people but I didn’t care as training does not stop for runners (well it slows down anyway).
I reached the mile marker and stopped to stretch a little more before returning home to complete my two mile run. I felt good throughout to say I had drank a lot the night before. I opted not to time this run but the main thing is I did what I said I would. Call me crazy but I Christmas Day 2006, I went running.
Positive: I went for a run on Christmas day.
Negative: I must be crazy running on Christmas day.
Fast Mile: N/A
Slow Mile: N/A
Run time: N/A
“Some miss many pleasures through caring too much for comfort.”
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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