Today: 6 miles

Week: 25 miles

Workout: Niketown - E. Drive & 108th St. - turn around and do 3 repeats of the hill back to 102nd St. Transverse.

Ran 10:00+ min/mile. It's getting dark earlier!!

Mile Repeats

Today: 6.5 miles

Week: 19 miles

Workout: 4x 1 mile back and forth around the lower loop of Central Park. 3 minutes between repeats. 1 mile warm up and cool down.

5:55, 5:38, 5:48, 5:57. Felt pretty good. Could have gone faster on the last one. Hip pain is getting worse. Beginning to wonder whether I'll have to skip the NYC Marathon again this year.

Today: 4.5 miles

Week: 12.5 miles

Workout: Niketown - Central Park extended bridle path

Yesterday: 8 miles

Week: 8 miles

Workout: 2.5 mile warm up around the lower loop of Central Park, 5 mile tempo run, 0.5 mile cool down.

5-mile tempo, 33:25 (6:41/mile). Tough workout.

Yankee Stadium

Today: 3 miles

Week: 37 miles

Workout: Damon Runyon 5K race

The novelty of this race has worn off. It was still fun to run on the warning track a couple of times. But I could do without all the stairs and ramps. I'm not sure about my place. I ran about 23:28.

Yesterday: 10 miles

Week: 34 miles

Workout: 5-mile loop in Central Park and then bridle path.

37:31 for the 5-mile loop, and 37:02 for the bridle path. 1h 13m total.

Strawberry Fields Hills

Today: 6 miles

Week: 24 miles

Workout: Niketown - Strawberry Fields - 9 loops and return.

I ran the loops at 9:30/mile.

Cat Hill Repeats

Wednesday: 6 miles

Week: 18 miles

Workout: Warm up from Y to Boat House. Two sets of 5 Cat Hills. Recover on the downhill. 3 additional minutes rest between sets.

1:27, 1:26, 1:24, 1:24, 1:24, REST, 1:22, 1:22, 1:21, 1:20, 1:20. Getting a little worried. My hip was hurting DURING the workout. Will this pain EVER go away?!

Yesterday: 6 miles

Week: 12 miles

Workout: Niketown - lower loop - 72nd St. Transverse - E. Drive - 102nd St. Transverse - retrace route.

9:00 to 10:00/miles.

Recovery Run

Today: 6 miles

Week: 6 miles

Workout: One full loop of Central Park. 46 minutes.

I felt surprisingly good today, considering the long run yesterday.

Long Run

Today: 14.5 miles

Week: 36 miles

Workout: 181st St. - Inwood Hill Park - B'way - Van Cortlandt Park - 261st St. - Riverdale Ave. - 231st St. - B'way - Inwood Hill Park - 181st St.

I didn't plan on running so far the day after the race, but once I got going I figured I may as well do a long run since I had someone to run with. Definitely a little dehydrated, however. Drank a lot of Gatorade and sat in a tub of ice water for a few minutes. I'm done for the day!

Team Championships

iRunners and West Side Y

Today: 6 miles

Week: 21.5 miles

Workout: Team Championships 5 mile race

I felt great before the race, but awful during the race. 31:10 (6:14/mile). My splits were 6:01, 6:01, 6:30, 6:28, 6:10. Hmmmm...guess what part of the race I didn't feel well???

The men were 12th out of 29 teams, and the women were 19th out of 30 teams. The race was extremely competitive.

Thursday: 3 miles

Week: 8.5 miles

Workout: Run/walk on bridle path

Tuesday, August 3rd: 5.5 miles

Week: 5.5 miles

Workout: Niketown - E. Drive @85th - W. Drive - around the top of Central Park - back to Niketown

Friday, July 30th: 6 miles

Week: 13 miles

Workout: Three 1 1/4 mile repeats @ 6:40/mile with 2:30 rest.

Workout: Running around the living room. Chasing my 2-year-old nephew. It had to be at least 0.5 mile!

Niece was born early this morning!!!

200 Meter Repeats

Yesterday: 4.5 miles
Week: 7 miles
Workout: 3.5 mile warm up, 8 x 200 m repeats with long recovery.

I did the repeats on the street in front of my brother's house. Neighbors were probably thinking, "what the heck is that guy doing, running back and forth?"

Monday: 2.5 miles
Week: 2.5 miles
Workout: Easy run @9:30/mile pace. West Covina.

I wasn't planning on running since my legs are still tired from yesterday's run, and I had eaten dinner a couple of hours ago. But I decided to head out around 9:30 p.m. with my brother.

"LONG" Run

Sunday: 10 miles
Week: 22.5 miles
Workout: Streets of West Covina, CA

I finally decided to get in a "long" run. There are 15 weeks left before the NYC Marathon, and I figure I'd better get started with the training. The run went fine, although my hip still remains sore/tight. I even threw in a hill with 14% grade, in the middle of the run.

600 meter repeats

Thursday: 5 miles
Week: 12.5 miles
Workout: 2.5 mile warm-up, 3x600 meter repeats, 1 mile cool down

The repeats were all slightly uphill. I took too long of a rest in between repeats.

Tuesday: 5 miles

Week: 7.5 miles

Workout: 5-mile loop in West Covina, CA.

My run included a tough hill. Must have been at least 10% grade, at its steepest. I haven't officially begun marathon training yet, and it's going to be difficult to put in the miles while on vacation.

Sunny CA

Monday: 2.5 miles

Week: 2.5 miles

Workout: Easy loop in West Covina, CA.

Run for Central Park

Today: 4.5 miles

Week: 28.5 miles

Workout: 0.5 mile warm up, 4 mile race

Yesterday, I volunteered to pick up race numbers and t-shirts for some of my teammates. I was very worried that I would wake up late this morning and not be able to meet them with their race numbers. I set about six different alarms to make sure I got up.

I did a 1/2-mile warm up to the starting line. I could not stop sweating, and I was still standing at the starting line!!! The NYRR website says it was 82 degrees and 53% humidity, but it felt much worse than that. I ran a 24:30 for the 4-mile race. Splits: 6:04, 6:00, 6:19, 6:07. Avg. 6:08/mile. 156th place out of 2525 men.

Our West Side YMCA men's team was 15th out of 36 teams. The women's team was 17th out of 31 teams. The men's masters team was 11th out of 43 teams. We missed 10th place by 1 second!

Yesterday: 4 miles

Week: 24 miles

Workout: Central Park - 65th - 75th on E. Drive. From there, run hard to 85th, recover back to 75th, repeat this 2 more times. Then head back to 65th.

CPC Run for Central Park 4-mile race on Saturday.

Bridle Path

Today: 9 miles

Week: 20 miles

Workout: Y - bridle path - one loop of reservoir, then back to Y. Then, bridle path again, all the way to 102nd, and back to Y.

Love the bridle path! Especially when it's a little damp. It feels softer.

Yesterday: 5 miles

Week: 11 miles

Workout: Niketown - lower loop - 86th - run across the bottom of reservoir to East Drive - run down and around lower loop.

Half Mile Repeats

Today: 6 miles

Week: 6 miles

Workout: Warm up from Y to 86th St on East Drive in Central Park. Run 4 half-mile repeats from 86th to 96th St., rest for 90 seconds, and do the repeat from 96th to 86th.

2:44 (feeling energetic, and um, stopped a little short of the finish), 2:51 (damn! 90 seconds of rest goes by quick!), 2:51 (half way done, I think I'll be able to run 6 repeats), 2:53 (maybe not. that was a tough one), 2:51 (HA! I was able to fool my body into thinking that was the last one!), 3:02 (Oh no! Nothing left on that one.)

Bridle Path

Today: 5.5 miles

Week: 29.5 miles

Workout: Niketown - lower loop - 1 loop of bridle path and return.

LOVE the bridle path! I could probably add years to my running career if I ran regularly on the bridle path.

Out and Back

Today: 3.5 miles

Week: 24 miles

Workout: Niketown - 96th St. on Bridle Path and back.

Easy run, but no energy. Legs are still recovering from yesterday's workout.

Lebron goes to Miami!

Mile Repeats

Today: 8.5 miles

Week: 20.5 miles

Workout: 5 mile repeats around lower loop of Central Park.

6:00, rest 2:43, 5:52, rest 4:53, 5:59, rest 3:08, 6:11, rest 5:08, 5:52. One lower loop cool down. I probably should have stopped after the 4th repeat. According to the thermometer, it was about 10 degrees cooler @6:30 this evening than at the same time yesterday. But it still felt uncomfortably hot.

I realize I keep talking/complaining about the weather. I will try to keep that to a minimum in the future.

Lower Loop

Yesterday: 3.5 miles

Week: 12 miles

Workout: 2 lower loops of Central Park

HOT!!! 'Nuff said.