This morning I drove down to Van Cortlandt Park for the VCTC Run for Puerto Rico - a fund raiser for hurricane victims. Most of the runners were VCTC members, but there where a good number of friends participating as well. The highlight, pre-run, was the singing of the Puerto Rican national anthem ("La Borinquena") before we set off across the flats to the start line!
The run itself was 2.5 loops of the parade grounds. It worked out (according to my GPS) to slightly less than 3.7 miles. But the more interesting aspect was the widely disparate running conditions on either side of the flats - wind tunnel like on the east side, calm with breaks of sun on the west side!
Thanks to Hiroshi, I wound up running a much faster pace (couple of second over an 8 minute pace) than the easy run I had planned (e.g. 9+ minute miles). All in all it was a great morning, and it was great that VCTC organized it. I think Bobby said it raised over $1600 for the relief effort - which is outstanding!
I only took a handful of photos - but the event was covered by local cable news (channel 12, I believe) and a clip was posted on FB.
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