3 Mile Run = Home - Doctors - Home
Date: 9th May 2007
Conditions: Heavy Rain, Windy
Notes: This was my first run in over a week due to a pulled muscle in my right hamstring that I have suffered with for many months now. My Sports Therapist informed me that the injury is only minor but I still felt the need to rest my leg.
This was a fatal error as my fitness has suffered and it was clear in my three mile run last night.
I set out in heavy rain and for the first time since starting running without my running partner, my trusty Ipod. The rain was coming down really hard as I set out down Dobholes lane on the one and a half mile run to the Doctors before turning around for the return leg. The run there was ok but after turning around the rain and wind was coming straight at me and this made the return leg much harder. My running top was saturated and stuck to my chest which made breathing difficult.
I made it home very wet and happy to be indoors.
In closing I know that my fitness will rapidly return over the next three weeks but I will not be pushing myself too hard as I am now in my three week tapering period. The race is getting close now and I am beginning my mental preparation, as the physical preparation is almost complete.
Positive: If I can run in these conditions I can run in anything.
Negative: My fitness levels have dropped due to missed training sessions.
Days to Edinburgh Marathon: 17
Fast Mile: N/T
Slow Mile: N/T
Run time: N/T
"Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment".
Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made."
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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