Still Here

Yes, I am still planning to run all of the streets in Manhattan but I have been a bit busy lately training from the NYC marathon. Now I know what you’re thinking, with long runs in the high teens for the last few weeks and the foreseeable future shouldn’t I be picking off large chunks of the city. This being my first marathon I’m taking an extremely cautious approach. This means sticking to the mileage prescribed by my training schedule, as to not over or under train. My training schedule calls for three runs a week, one long, one speed/tempo, and one short/easy. The long runs of obviously intended to build up your endurance while getting you accustom to running for hours without rest. Given that I am sometime forced to stop for lights while running the streets of Manhattan I’m hesitant to run the street on my long runs because it may cut into the beneficial endurance building. As a result, most of my long runs take place in the park, where there is no reason to stop. As for the speed/tempo, these runs require either short busts of speed or medium distance at a heightened speed. The benefit of both speed and tempo runs would be greatly reduced by the need to stop from time to time. This leaves my once a week short run. Unfortunately, as my long run mileage increases the short run have turned into about 3 mile jog followed by some core work, just does not seem worth it to hop on the subway on a Monday night after work for such a short distance.

So that’s the answer to where I’ve been. So until the marathon on November 7, I think my project is somewhat on hold. But after that, I’m coming back, planning to use my new found love of 15+ mile runs to cover some serious ground.