What ever it takes!

5 easy miles with the puppy this morning. Something at work is bothering me lately so it made me run fast than normal.

My flight got into New York last night at midnight so I didn't get to bed until 1:00am.  Woke up at 6:00 and decided traffic would be annoying running to the park so I ran on the treadmill.  6 miles progressive run just to wake up.

Ran from the hotel up Broadway to Central Park.  Pretty muggy but about 10 degrees cooler than I was planning so not horrible.  Someone must have forgot to tell me it was tempo Tuesday,  I hardly ever get passed when running in Central Park but people were flying past me right and left, and most of them girls.  Maybe I'm just slow, for some reason my knee really bothers me when going uphill but not flat or downhill.

1 mile to the Park, 1 big loop (6 miles) 1 little loop (1.5 miles) and 1 mile back to the hotel.  I thought the small loop was longer, maybe there is a middle loop I forgot about.

Decided to switch it up a bit today, instead of running Central Park I ran down 45th to the Hudson river where the Intrepid Aircraft Carrier is parked and ran (South) I think to where the Ellis Island ferry is.  There is a Bike Path and a run/walking path that goes all the way down, the Bike path is a nice straight shot, the running path is twisty turny sometimes joins the bike bath sometime just ends up nowhere.  I tried to follow it and eventually gave up and ran the Bike Path, I noticed that seemed to be a common thing for most the runners.  I had never gone that far South before so it was pretty neat, lots of nice parks.  On the way back it started to drizzle rain which felt nice, then about a mile later it started to downpour, which felt nice but I considered logging the last 2 miles as swim miles. 

Very enjoyable run this morning for some reason, it was really humid and when I was done my shirt was just as wet as yesterday when it rained on me but it didn't bother me to much today.  Kept my pace pretty quick 7:15ish, and only got passed once.  Ran 1 big Central Park Loop and one Medium Loop, second loop I ran to the Reservoir and ran the soft dirt running trail.  Lots and lots of people out this morning.

1 Central Park loop before going to the airport to come home.

Good run with Ryan this morning, we haven't had a run together in months so it was nice to go on our old familiar route again.  He claims I was keeping the pace up, I was feeling great and not breathing hard at all at 7:00 pace, and no leg pain.  He actually started falling apart towards the end of the run, which has never happened, ever.  I'm always the one that falls apart.  So thanks Ryan for going on Vacation and making me feel good about myself.