Finish Time

5:07:50


2008's Finish time:
5:29:13

Mile 14 time posted

2:27:42

Half Marathon time posted

2:17:31


2008's half marathon:
2:25:41

20K time posted

2:09:48


2008's 20k:
2:17:07

15K time posted

1:35:22


2008's 15k:
1:39:53

Mile 18

Just past 18.


Ran the entire Queensboro Bridge and "that bridge is a bitch."

10K time posted

1:01:53


2008's 10k:
1:05:49

Mile 10

Al just past the 10 mile mark.

He's keeping under 11:25 a mile, which means he's on course to break 5 hours today.

I'll post the official times once I get them.

5K time posted

0:30:17


For comparison:
2008's 5K time: 0:33:08

Pete and i

Moments before the start. Hopefully updates will follow.

It's go time!

Race day is here!

We spent last night at Colette's house in Staten Island. She is
dropping us off at the start. More to you......

At the finish

Do we even still need to run?

Central Park late afternoon

I've run by this lake several times and never noticed it before.

The weekend plan

Pete and I will be heading to NYC shortly. First stop is the Javits Center to get our bib numbers and timing chips and whatever goodies they give us for a $185 entry fee. Then we'll park my car in parking garage near the finish line and then head down to Staten Island via Subways and the ferry. We are staying at someone's house near the finish line. It should prove interesting.

Tomorrow we're up and heading to the start. Pete is in the 10:10 wave, I'm in the 10:40 wave. Mary and her friends will wait for me somewhere on First Ave. for a quick visit hopefully around 3PM. Then I finish and we dog pile into my car and drive home.

Seems simple, doesn't it.....

NY Marathon training complete

Basic 3.5 mile treadmill run finished up training for NY. This gives me 760 miles for the year. The forecast for Sunday is perfect for me. 50 degrees and sunny. I will blog Saturday at the expo and in Staten Island and the morning of the race. Lauren will blog for me during the race unless it goes badly and I end up blogging myself. My goal again is to break 5 hours.

Training update #1 - 9/21/10

So I've run over 18 miles in the last 3 days.

Sunday was 8.2 miles, took it easy. Ran well for 5 miles, sort of ran down the last 3.

Monday - I went out for speed training which I did for 3 miles, then ran into a friend and ended up running a very slow 3 miles with him. The pace was very slow but I felt I could do it for a while and it would get me under 5 hours in the marathon.

Tuesday - I had no plan. Just went out and ran into my friend again. We did 1.5 before he quit, then I did another 3 by myself and just experimented with the slow easy pace.

I'll take tomorrow off and resume on Thursday.

NY Marathon 2010 Goal

In reading my 2007 wrap up blog, I typed the following - " I'm going to break 5 hours in this goddamn race if it kills me." I've run NY 3 times and my best time was 2007 in 5:25. So this year I'm going to break 5 hours in this goddamn race if it kills me.

There I said it. 4:59:59 or bust.

New York Marathon - 7 weeks from today

Here we go again. The marathon is Nov. 7 and my training has been, well..... disappointing. Mostly due to the heat but somewhat due to a lack of motivation. However this week I picked it up. Ran 28 miles ending with an 8.2 today. If I can do a 10, 12 ,14 and 16 in the next 4 weeks I should be good to go.

I'm formulating a different race strategy for this marathon, I'll post it when I have it finalized.

This week's goal is 30 miles. Stay tuned.

NJ Marathon Wrap Up - The Good

Amy letting us use her condo as our base of operations - just awesome.
Mary for being there, helping out and being there.
The race organizers for ensuring there was plenty of fluid stations, first aiders and in general just wonderful organization on a dreadful day.
The volunteers who distribute water and other supplies. They were tremendous.
The people who lived on the course who were hosing us down with water - thanks everyone.
The hot dogs at Max's after the race. Hmmm Hot Dogs.
They had enough water and gatorade on just a dreadful day - 'nuff said.
And finally we didn't die.