packet pick-up for nfl back to football run

yesterday i stopped at niketown to for the nfl back to football packet pick-up.  while niketown is closer to my office, it more of a hassle (having to switch over to the local at 42nd street) than heading up to the nyrr building for the pick-up.  be that as it may, this will be race number 7 on the road to 9 for the 2013 nycm.

more interestingly, however, tomorrow night's race (7:30 start) will be my first evening run in central park in years.  i can't remember whether the last one was the bsa 5k or the chase corp challege - either one was at least 2-3 years ago!  i'm looking forward to this one!

as always, if you're at this one - say hello!

2012 run for central park 4 miler: race photos and results

if if wasn't that i had fallen behind on my goal of nine + one for the 2013 nyc marathon, i would have gone to norwalk and done the summer series 7 miler instead of heading down to central park for the 4 miler.  with the run for central park now in the books i have 4 races toward the nine (well off the pace - so to speak - of prior years).  since it was a team race, it was great to see so many taconic road runners afterwards!

as for the race itself, i had very conservative 7:30 pace in mind when i started.  as it turned out i ran a 29:06, 7:17 pace - a bit faster than i had in mind. my overriding priority was to avoid setting back my recovery from a nagging ankle problem.  afterwards, race done and point in hand, i wasn't any worse for the wear - so i'll count that as success :D

here are the race results from nyrr.

2012 japan run packet pick-up

i picked up not only the japan run bib and shirt yesterday, but also for the healthy kidney 10k. this rare double weekend of nyrr races would have been numbers 4 and 5 on the road to nine for 2013. but plans change, and as i mentioned in the earlier post, no healthy kidney race for me today. instead, tomorrow's 4 miler will be my 4th nyrr race of the year. and if plans don't change, the brooklyn half marathon will be race number 5 next weekend.

as always, if your at this one - aay hello :D