Saturday was my first race for the 2016 season.
Given that I’ve been out of commission for the past 2.5 weeks with a pulled muscle in my back (from bending down to pick up my son, yeah, hello 46, nice to meet you) I don’t think I faired so poorly.
The race celebrates Joe Kleinerman, one of the founding members of the New York Road Runners who recently passed away at age 91. Saturday 5,200 runners lined up in Central Park to run the 10K loop starting at the 102 transverse on the east side to honor his memory.
I ran with my buddy Dan and set out to run 8:30s. When Dan and I crested Harlem Hill he told me to slow down. When we got to 90th Street on the west side, he said it again, we we got to 72nd it started to sound like a mantra. At that point I had given up on the 8:30s and was feeling really well and decided to just continue at the current pace.
And then we got to the bottom of Cat Hill. I got a pretty bad stitch on my right side that wouldn’t let up. Dan tried to get me to just jog with him up the hill, but I sent him on. I walked up the hill and was feeling better by that time so I started running again (surprisingly for my fastest mile of the race).
So there it is. Am I ready for the LA Marathon? I’ll know this weekend, until then I’m just going to run and not think about it too much.
I had the GoPro Hero Session 4 with my for the first time in a race and was pretty happy with carrying it and how it felt in my hand.
Above is a quick one minute video from the race.
