4 Mile Run = Home - Woodhouse - Smalley Cross - Home
Date: 1st May 2007
Conditions: Mild, Sunny
Notes: Having not run for eleven days due to injury and illness, I knew this run would be a little harder than this four mile course usually is. I have run this route many times before and know it inside out. It has two tough hills but with the right approach both mentally and physically it is a relatively nice run.
After my usual warm up I set out along Dobholes lane and by the mile one marker I felt good. As I ran down Wood lane and approached the first hill still felt good and halfway up the hill I remember thinking that this was far easier than I thought it would be having not run for so long. Once at the top I did feel a little tired but nothing to worrying.
I proceeded down the second decline towards the mile two marker but it was at this point that I felt a slight stitch like feeling in my lower abdominal. I believe that this was a pulled muscle rather than stitch.
As I passed the mile three mark the pain was still there so I had to stop to stretch out but soon enough I was off again. As I came into Smalley I slowed down so the pain would not return. I crossed the finish line and felt tired but I know that my fitness will not be in question come race day. I am mentally prepared for the Marathon now and I know that I have put the work in to enable me to finish the race in one piece.
Positive: I felt good at the top of Wood Lane hill.
Negative: I felt a stitch / pull at the half way point.
Days to Edinburgh Marathon: 25
Fast Mile: N/T
Slow Mile: N/T
Run time: N/T
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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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