Getting back to Boston

Good run today. New course for me, and I like it; I'll have to use it again. I've done the Shiloh/Wagon Wheel loop before, but instead of coming back down Silent Grove off Wagon Wheel, I stayed on WW all the way to 40th Street, then came back down 40th. Which in that area is not really a street, it's a winding country road with very little traffic. Some undulation, but nothing too difficult, and it was a pleasant afternoon for a run -- about 60, bit of a breeze, and overcast, so no squinting required. Turned off 40th on to Falcon at Smith School, then south on White to Elm Springs, wound around to Gutensohn, back up to Silent Grove, past the house, up the park driveway and cut through back to the house. Wound up 10.26. Felt so good that I ran the last mile and change at MP. Good way to get back in the saddle after taking yesterday off for physical and mental fatigue.

Ran under a tornado warning tonight, sorta. our county is under one, but it's the far southern edge of the county; I'm so far north I almost went out of the county on tonight's 5-miler. Ran the first 4.5 easy and kinda pushed the last 0.7, mainly because I was ready to finish and get out of the rain. Last segment was at roughly MP, the rest was at mid-9ish. Legs felt pretty good after yesterday's Beast.

Progression run tonight. Considerably warmer and muggier than last night, so plenty of sweating. Every mile was faster than the one before. Overall average 9:25 per mile.

Trying to figure out a running plan for NYC. Think I may take the subway Friday afternoon to Central Park, run around the park, then run back to the hotel, which is about five miles south down Sixth Avenue. That might work. Or it might not. Gotta to that before dark, that's for sure. Full Central Park loop plus back to the hotel would be about 11 miles.

Easy but humid 5.4 tonight at JBH and the lake. Kept the HR in the mid-130s despite the heat. Probably was even lower than that, since I suspect I got some flase pulse readings early until I got the monitor belt sweaty enough.

Think I've come up with a running plan for NYC. Go over to the Hudson, run up the Hudson River Greenway, work over to Central Park when I get far enough north, loop the southern half of the park including the reservoir, then back to the hotel. Should be a nice 10-miler or so. That'll be a good run for me, if I can get there and get started in time to finish before dark..

Kind of a nondescript run with the Fleet Feet crew, except that the guy who thought he knew where we were going, didn't. Even when we got back to Old Wire Road, we weren't sure where on that road we were. Until I remembered the mapping feature on the Garmin. Checked the virtual breadcrumbs, and sure enough we were headed in the right direction, and in a quarter mile we were back on track. Our little detours took a 3.5 mile run up to 5-plus. But that's OK. And that feature may come in handy tomorrow in NYC, unless the tall buildings block out my satellites. Average pace tonight 9:12, and that included a stop for Jason and Christian to be goofy and try to do some pullups. Otherwise, probably sub-9 overall. That's probably a good pace for me to shoot for in NYC, in between dodging taxis.

Purely guessing on the run. The Garmin took forever to lock in on the satellite, maybe a mile. Then it cut out in Central Park; not sure if I accidentally turned it off or what. Total run took just about two hours, and the first 4 or so, coming up the Hudson River Greenway, were well under 9:00 pace, so I guesstimated 12 miles this morning. I'll see if I can map it on mapmyrun tomorrow and get a better number, although I'm still not sure what pace I ran in the park what with going up and down steps, twisting and turning, stuff like that. Ran back down 6th Ave. to my hotel, which was an interesting exercise in dodging pedestrians and taxis. Glad I got to do the run though; I can scratch Central Park off my running bucket list.