Seriously New York is the coolest place to run in the world, Tried to get to bed early last night so I could wake up and get a good run in today. Woke up at 5:30am EST and headed out the door. It was cold but I had brought my cold weather running gear, at least most of it. Started from Time Square, ran down Broadway to the North West corner of Central park, ran out Central Park West and ran the entire perimeter of the Park, which I've never done before, that loop was about 6 miles so then from the North East corner of the park I ran the inner circle out and around the big lake, I usually like running the little dirt trail around the lake but when I got up there it was solid ice so I went back down to the road. Ran that loop back to Broadway and back to the hotel. My Garmin never did pick up satellites so I had to come back and MapmyRun it, I was trying for 12 miles, map my run said 11.5 so I'll go with that. Central park is the neatest place to run, seriously 100's of people of all fitness levels out early in the morning running, walking or biking around the park. There were guys there that were probably 2:15 marathoners to little old men just scootin along, all out enjoying the park together. I can't remember what time my flight is tomorrow but I really hope I have time to get a quick run in the park before I have to leave. Here is my mapmyrun course in case you ever come to NewYork and need to know an 11.5 mile run. :) No watch so 11.5 miles in ~1:20:00 7:00min/mil avg, with traffic on Broadway and my little lake path detour.
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