Hello Manhattan – You Are Crowded With People, Cars, Buildings, and Things
Posted: January 17, 2012 Filed under: City Running | Tags: easy run, nyc 5 Comments »
Every time I’m in Manhattan I feel overwhelmed. I was agitated last night and just tossed and turned until about 1am, thinking about SOPA and PIPA and how disturbed I was by politicians and executives at big companies who lie, know they are lying, but do it anyway to try to get what they want. I’m sure some of that was me trying to recover from the double long run this weekend and some of it was global annoyance. Fortunately it’s a new day and Moby is playing on Pandora.
My run today was an easy recovery run. I’m staying near Union Square so I hopped over FDR (via a bridge at 21st) and ran along the Hudson River for a mile or so. The goal today was just shake out my legs and get ready for a hard run tomorrow. The sun came out while I was running, which was nice, although it’s cloudy again.
My coach Gary included a note in my training log: “Stretch for 10 minutes after your run – do not consider this an optional suggestion.” Command given and obeyed.
Like this:
Easy Run In Keystone With My Coach
Posted: January 2, 2012 Filed under: Keystone | Tags: easy run, Keystone 8 Comments »
After three days of 90 minute runs in the mountains of Keystone behind my house, I needed an easy run. My coach Gary and his wife Nikki stopped by our place on their way home (to Kentucky), watched Nebraska get stomped by South Carolina, and then we went for a short run. While our paths have physically crossed a few times, mostly at marathons, we’d never run together before.
I’m at 9,000 at my house in Keystone and have two different speeds up here – slow, and slower. It’s hilly and even in a 30 minute run we covered 300 ft up and down. In case you think I feel like I’m cruising at 10:54 / mile, remember that I’m at 9,000 feet.
It’s a powerful contrast to do a 30 minute run after three 90 minute runs in a row. The weather was perfect – sunny and around 40 degrees. It takes me about 20 minutes to loosen up and start cruising so we were well on our way home by the time I settled into a groove. Gary and Nikki are both much faster than me so they went at my pace, but they were happy to go slower given the lack of oxygen.
Before we knew it, we were done. And that was all I needed to do today.
Tomorrow is my off day and then we’ll see what Gary has in store for me for the rest of the week.
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