It rained throughout the entire race, which wasn't really bad at all. The course was one loop around central park. It ran clockwise instead of counter clockwise like most races. I liked that because we ran down the two largest hills instead up them.
Next Sunday I'm running the 4mile Run as One(fight against lung cancer), also in central park.
I'm trying to figure out how to run faster. What I like about very long runs is the strategy involve. In the Rome Marathon and CP half marathon I pretty much took it easy for half the race. in both cases I picked up my speed in the second part I began the "fishing" as Ramon calls it or "chasing rabbits" as Simon says. That's where you pick a person somewhere in front of you and than pass them, then pick another person and so on. It's very good for the ego. For me a lot of those people are fast walkers or very very old. Hey I have to take what I can get. But what I love is when I start passing athletic looking guys in nice jerseys- the kind like look like they should have finished already. That tells me that they simply ran out of gas because they didn't know how to pace themselves. That happened a lot in the Marathon. I can't say i was fast, but in miles 20 to 24 i was running pretty hard.
In today's 1ok I was told to take it easy on the first two miles, then kick it up a little on miles 3 and 4, then run like Satan was chasing me on the last 2 miles. I followed that for most of the race, but when it came to running fast I don't know how fast I was actually going. I did kick it up and I was passing almost everybody I came upon in the last mile. I like to start passing people sooner and continue that speed.
