Took last week off from running although we did quite a bit of walking and swimming during our vacation. My legs felt rather stiff and calves were cramped when I resumed running this week. I should have atleast stretched last week, lesson learnt.
This week was a slow start. I did my scheduled runs and even compensated for Sunday's missed run.
Saturday's run was particularly interesting. Park Ave was closed to traffic on Saturday mornings in August 2008 and converted into a summer street. NYTimes article. The route was from Central Park East side across on 72nd street and the Park Ave south all the way to Brooklyn bridge. The summer street is about 6 miles long. NYRR had water stations on the way. There were bike rentals and yoga/martial art classes in the street as well. It was a lot of fun running upto the MetLife building and right through it on to Union Square, through Chinatown, City Hall all the way across Brooklyn Bridge. My target was to do 10 miles but ended up falling short of it because of the erroneous mileage advertised by NYRR (6.9 when it was barely 6 from CP 72nd upto BB).
Mileage: 4+4+3+9=20 miles
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