Categories: Fitness

Happy Derby de Mayo!

It’s not even 1pm yet, and I’ve already:

  • run 8 miles
  • showered
  • dried my hair
  • inhaled a spinach feta wrap
  • taken two trains out to New Jersey

It was so insanely humid and foggy this morning on my lover, the West Side Highway. That’s the Freedom Tower behind the fog.

I don’t usually take many pictures on my runs any more, but my head wasn’t totally in the run this morning, so I gave myself a few photo breaks.

Oh hey Jersey City! (And Dori.)

More fog, buildings around World Financial Center.

When I first started running three years ago, this is the area of the path I ran on all the time, and I miss it a lot. It was so peaceful to run past the marina and a much less busy area of the path.

I fought through the fog and humidity for my 8 miles, and now it’s time to celebrate—my cousin’s birthday and Derby de Mayo!

HAPPY DERBY DE MAYO!

Theodora Blanchfield

View Comments

  • Congratulations!!! for Happy Derby de Mayo! Also your photographs are awesome. Thanks for sharing these eye catching photos with us.

  • Busy, busy! I love getting up early to accomplish so much before noon. Of course, I also really like sleeping in. It's a dilemma at times...

  • Living in the desert, we don't get very much fog but I do miss it!

    Hope your 5th was fun.

  • Love the JC pic, and I can see both my office and the area where my apartment building is in it! And I worked in the World Financial Center for three years, so your run felt like a peek into my life. Great job!

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