1st August 2007
Shipley Park 6.5 Mile
Conditions: Mild, Overcast
Run Type: Injury Recovery
Notes: Having had a fantastic run through Shipley Park two days ago I decided to go for more of the same today. Shipley Park is the only place I can go with minimal hills, whilst I’m coming back from injury.
I set out from the visitors centre car park and headed along the track towards Bell Lane. I kept my pace as ion the last run well above the nine minute mile pace so not to aggravate my hamstring. I did not have an exact course that I was following but I knew that I would be heading towards the American Adventure.
As I approached the ‘Venture’ I was greeted by my first hill, but it was nothing like what I normally have to tackle but I still slowed right down for it as I need to keep the force on my hamstring to a minimum.
Once at the top of the hill the course sweeps back down and round the side of the Venture where can see the entire park, which is now simply a ghost town of its former self. As I left the venture, the course leads back past the cricket club towards Ozzie’s and eventually past Lockton before arriving back at the car park. I took it steady along this straight but when I got back to the start I was not ready to finish so I carried on past the car park and back down towards Bell Lane. The extra run I did at the end accumulated to one and a half miles, which brought this run up to six and a half miles and yet again, I loved every minute of it.
Run time: 1:03:28
Pace: 9:46 / mile
Days to New York Marathon: 93
“Perseverance: is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
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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