- Sat, Nov 21: "Lane Silber" Half Marathon! 13.1 miles, 2 hrs 49 mins 20 seconds.
The good things: We started on the Manhattan side of the George Washington Bridge, and ran across the bridge into New Jersey's portion of Palisades Interstate Park. It was beautiful, with the trees and the river and weather that was really quite nice. Also, I finished! And did it in about the same time it took me to run 12 miles last week.
The not so great things: It HURT. There were hills upon hills in that park, and the steep hills took it out of me. I was at an ok pace in the beginning, but really slow in the second half. Hence, I was the 3rd last person to finish. I was hoping my time would be more like 2.5 hours, but then I was just hoping to be done under 3 hours. I was so exhausted and fed up, that I stared down the bikes on the bridge, who had to get out of MY way, lol. Note: I was in my lane, just not hugging the side like on my way out. (Bikers and runners tend to have some hostility between them, I've found, as bike and running paths are right next to each other and bikers don't like runners in their bike lane.)
Anyhow, I did it. Just have to do this twice in a row on race day. :)
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Well done Janine!!
ReplyDeleteI know it hurt but 13.1 miles is a lot!!
And Palisades Park is beautiful, too much hills for my taste though. I've only been there once and by car, hehe, but I remember seeing bikers having a hard time there, (no runners as far as I remember that day but I guess it must be very difficult!)