4 Mile Run = Home – Smalley Cross – Wood Lane – Home
Date: 26th March 2007
Conditions: Mild, Dry
Notes: This was my first run since returning from Mexico and more importantly my first full run in three weeks. Reason being was with the hard partying and heat of Cancun, running was just too difficult. I tried it once but I felt like I would die if I continued. Having arrived back in England I had contracted a bad cough, more than likely from the reconditioned plane air.
Having weathered my virus I was back on the road for a short four mile run. Having stretched and warmed up I set out without the clock at an unbelievably steady pace to ease myself back into my running. I was expecting to die by the first corner but I was ok and reached mile one feeling very good. I stopped to stretch again and then set out to time (but not worried what my times would be) the next two miles, with a one mile warm down at the end.
The first mile was ok and although I felt I was running really slow I still ran a sub eight minute mile. Having lost much of my fitness on my holiday I decided that my goal is to run sub four hours in Edinburgh and that means nine to nine and a half minute miles so even with lost fitness this is a very achievable goal.
It was the second mile that really tested me as it is ninety percent uphill and not gradual inclines, I’m talking steep hills. Once at the top I was really tired but I always knew this first run would be hard.
Having made it to the top I did my one mile warm down and once home my chest felt really tight but this was down to the virus I had picked up on the plane.
With this run out the way I can now concentrate on getting back to full training getting as fit as possible in time for Edinburgh.
Positive: I was good to get back on the road.
Negative: My time in Mexico and heavy partying made the hills very hard.
Days to Edinburgh Marathon: 61
Fast Mile: 7.47
Slow Mile: 9.17
Run Time time: 17.04
“A man can often do today what he could not do yesterday.”
New York City
"Running 26 miles around this place.....I can think of nothing better"
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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