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Sweating With Friends

Last night walking back from dinner, Tina and I had a talk about how running makes us more responsible. We had seven miles planned for today, so we knew that there was no way we could continue drinking wine and still run. We were in bed by around 11:30 and up around 5:30 to meet Ali in Central Park for a run.

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Tina and I ran a mile up to Central Park, and ran 2 miles to the reservoir path, hoping we’d find Ali. We started around the reservoir, and I saw a familiar sweaty girl standing, looking confused on the bridle path.

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I know her!

We took off and ran a chatty, sweaty lap with Ali before parting ways. As you may already know if you read her blog, Ali is a speed demon. I’m sure she slowed down a bit to run with us, but I still felt like I was flying running with her.

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Sweaty girls.

Any time I’ve run the reservoir before, I’ve always exited closer to Columbus Circle, but exited on the northwest side, and continued running north on the bridle path. After running for about another mile or so (my Garmin died so I’m not really sure), I told Tina I was pretty sure we were at 6-7 and were near Columbus Circle and we could start walking. We walked about two blocks before I saw Central Park West and 100th Street, realized I was completely turned around and we got on the subway.

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Will run for bagels.

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Tina and I are blogging right now, while Bailey helps.

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By helps, I mean naps.

First NYC Marathon Long Run!

It is so officially marathon training season.

I woke up at 5:45 this morning. On a Saturday. To run 9 miles. I don’t even wake up that early when I have a job.

But it’s always so worth it to wake up for long runs–especially when they’re not solo. This morning I ran 1.7 miles to Ashley’s to run with her. I’m getting really sick of running along the Hudson (I really never thought that day would come, but alas), so we ran east to the East River path. Which sort of sucks. We ran from the 20s to about 35th Street, where the path ends. We ran back west to First Ave, which is part of the NYC Marathon route. That bitch is HILLY. We did an out-and-back, running 3.5 miles up and 3.5 miles back, chatting and catching up the whole time.

(Running down First in the 20s and teens was interesting–there was a bumpy sidewalk in the middle, so we ended up running in the parked car lane.

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I was just so tired I couldn’t keep my eyes open.

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It was sort of weird doing yoga in the middle of a store (it wasn’t open yet, but still), but it was still pretty awesome. The instructor adjusted me quite a few times, which I usually don’t mind, but drove me nuts since I was so tight and tired. I was sort of going in just looking to stretch a bit and zen out a bit, not do perfect yoga. Although the stench of my running 8.7 miles in the heat probably evened the score.


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While we were running, I was frustrated that I thought we were running slow, but we did have to pause a few times for lights and stuff, which you can see reflected in the difference between the average moving pace and the time. (My Garmin was totally off for the first 1.7 miles, so I’m not including those splits here. I clearly did not run a 6:12 mile. I am not Emily.)

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After yoga, I ran an extra .33 miles to even it all out to 9 miles. I was famished and grabbed a bagel at Murray’s (per Sara’s recommendation) and some coconut water and iced coffee.

I’m so glad to be done with my run and glad it went well. And glad I had a bagel.

Back to my roof with the last Hunger Games book.

P.S. If you have an iPhone and are outside today (or any other hot day), hide it. My iPhone shut down for a little bit because it was too hot. Whiner.