I am stiff and sore but I am not injured. I guess that Jeff Galloway run/walk program really works because I ran 23 miles today and back in April I wasn’t running AT ALL!
The Husband seems proud of me.
But,
OMG Central Park was full of runners training for the New York Marathon this morning! There were probably more runners out training today than ran the Missoula Marathon, maybe even more people (when adding in bike riders and tourists and parents pushing strollers and elderly people out for a walk and people walking their dogs, and tai chi classes, and children’s birthday parties, and hopeful theatergoers waiting in line from six in the morning hoping for a pair of the free tickets to see Amy Adams in “Into The Woods” the current show on the Shakespeare in the Park stage.
It was harder to keep up with my pace group than when I wander around by myself. But on the other hand we were done running while lunch with normal people was still an option.
When I read the email about circling the park 3 times and then one more shorter loop to get to the 23 miles I wasn’t sure how I felt about that since I don’t really enjoy running in circles. But, since we started running so early that the air was cool and the park was almost empty and we finished when the sun was high and the park was full of all kinds of people it didn’t really feel like we were running in circles at all.
Central Park is huge.