2 Mile Recovery Run = Home - Wood/Dobholes Lane - Home
Date: 13th April 2007
Conditions: Warm, Dry
Notes: Having had a grueling session yesterday with the running club I decided to do a gentle two mile recovery run, to drain all the toxins from my legs. I set out at a really steady pace but still ran my first mile in under eight minutes.
Once at the one mile marker I did some stretching and then headed back for the second mile. Yet again I ran too fast and crossed the return mile marker in under eight minutes yet again.
It is clear from my times that I need to condition myself to run mid eight minute miles early in my training sessions so come race day I do not head out too fast. My next run is my weekly long run so early next week I will set a training session aside to establish the speed I should be running at in the early parts of my runs.
Positive: I am running fast again without realizing it.
Negative: Running fast early miles could well be my eventual downfall.
Days to Edinburgh Marathon: 43
Fast Mile: 7.38
Slow Mile: 7.48
Marathon time: 15.26
"If the furnace is hot enough, it will burn anything."
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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