West Side Story

• Sat, Oct 3: 4 miles along the West Side Hwy

All-team runs can be fun. This one hurt. Brooklyn, Staten Island and Manhattan groups met in Manhattan for a group run and connection to the cause event. Only thing, that required waking up even earlier and I was still sore from Wednesday.

Wanted to try for 5 miles, but went out much faster than I came back so I knew I wouldn't make it wasn't to be. Lesson learned about pacing? Still, it was 4 miles of continuous running, and I was able to work on the mental endurance (to stop, or not to stop) as well as try to figure out what to do when one starts to get a shin splint. I run too heavy. Need to work on that.

On an interesting note, I also registered to run the Nike Human 10K on October 24th. Cross fingers!