Count 'em!

This week I ran my mid-week run across the GW bridge. It was hot hot hot so i had to wait until 9pm so it was a bit cooler. I ran from my apartment up to 178th, across to the bridge. I had never run across a bridge so I was pretty excited. The walkway is narrow and I was kind of stupid and wore all black. Twice I almost go run over by people on bikes.

I hit the Jersey side of the bridge and headed back. On my way back to NYC I passed 3 kids (about 19) running back to Jersey. One stopped and tried to hit on me.. 9pm, in the middle of the hudson, only in NY. :)

This worked out to be a 4.75 mile run, and was really enjoyable. It made me want to run every bridge in Manhattan before October.. we'll see.

Saturday I went for my normal group training session in the park. We had a little clinic on how to approach the rest of our training leading up to the marathon. Then there was a touching speach by a woman who's son is a cancer survivor and one of our fellow trainees.. she herself has survived cancer, and she lost her father when she was young to cancer. She is a strong woman and we were all in tears by the end! Coach Ramon used this to inspire this to run an extra 2 miles!

I was already planning on going for 10 (last long run I had was 8) so this was it. It was hotter than hell and it was only 8am, and the humidity was off the charts. They stressed the need to hydrate along the way and said to just go easy. My legs have been feeling battered, so i took it at a nice slow pace. By mile 7 I was still feeling good and actually thinking i could probably push it to 11 or 12.. but I thought about how mad i'd be at myself if i ended up injured and stuck to my original 10.

Feels good to be in the double digits! And now I'm realizing that as long as I can keep myself healthy until October I can really finish a marathon!

I also found out this week that a teacher from my HS was just diagnosed with lymphoma. There is a high sucess rate with the treatment of his specific kind of cancer, so I am confident he'll be ok.. but i've added him to my list of honorees and keep him in my thoughts during training!

miles run monday: 3
miles run wednesday: 4.5
miles run saturday: 10