Feeling much better after being sick all week. Still a little on the congested side, but running is good for loosening up, and getting out, all that extra congestion. Since it was my first activity in a week, I decided to run my simple 4 mile run to the end of East River Park and back. I went after 7pm, so the park was not all that crowded. The weather was great. The run was definitely tough, my legs felt very heavy. First 2 miles was done in 18:11 and the return miles in 18:04. Normally I get a pretty strong negative split on this run, so this is a sign that I was not running on all cylinders today. After the long layoff, not complaining.
Most interesting part of the run was passing a bunch of people that had “Shore Walkers” race numbers pinned to their back. I probably passed about 15 of them in East River Park. The bib also said “Great Saunter 2009”. The people that I passed definitely looked to be pretty well spent. Well, turns out that the Great Saunter 2009 is a 32 mile walk around the perimeter of Manhattan, starting at 7:30am. The end of the walk was South Street Seaport, so these people still had 1-2 miles to go at 8pm when I passed them by. I definitely tip my hat to them. Way to go! I’ve never heard of the Shore Walkers, but it looks like a very well organized group, with multiple walks occurring every weekend. Maybe will need to check them out sometime.
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