East River Park

Last week, I followed Mayor Mike on Twitter, when he spent the day posting his own tweets.  Yeah, it was a gimmick, but it got me, and am I glad it did.  Today, this tweet caught my eye: "A Waterfront Project as Cool as the HighLine": Announced plan to refurbish 2 piers & build esplanade along East River [...]

Had an awesome weekend.  Was off on Monday so spent almost 3 days down at my weekend house in New Jersey.  Topped it off with a long 8.7 mile run Monday night - more on that below. Friday, kicked things off with an early morning run to East River Park.  It is notable that it was [...]

Thanks to The Lo Down, I see the next section of the East River Park Promenade is finally open for business!  This is the section behind the track.  Hopefully they can get on with the rest of it quickly.  I won't use the promenade section much, as I use the main road for my runs, [...]

Got out for a morning run.  Hopefully today is the start of a good new habit of morning workouts.  Yesterday was the last day I needed to get my 7 year old out of bed at 6:30 and out of the house at 7:05.  That schedule was just not conducive to morning workouts.  My kids [...]

Haven't had a chance to write in the last week, so here is a review of what I've been up to! Went to Middlebury VT last weekend.  My wife was speaking on a panel at alumni weekend at the college.  Middlebury is very nice.  We stayed at a great bed and breakfast, and tooled around [...]

I was very naive at the start.  The humidity was not high, and the temperature didn't seem too crazy, at 84 degrees, but it was still the afternoon and the sun was shining.  That, combined with not having run in anything higher than 72 degrees since early September (except for a couple of rough runs [...]

Inspired by Runners World, (although I still want to know how to properly run a true mile on the track) I set out to do a track workout at East River Park.  Needed to be sure I timed it just right.  If you go too late, and it is dark, the lighting is terrible.  If [...]

While I don't do track workouts all that often, I do enjoy them.  My 'home' track is at East River Park. It is about 1.1 miles from my front door to the track, which is a perfect warm up / cool down distance. In the last year, my typical track workout is 2 x 1 [...]

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 [...]