I was fine. Still operating on GMT (11.30am!)
Straight on subway to 102nd street transverse, Central Park. Arrived 13 minutes before start of race (New York Road Runners Champs). Was running in colours of New York Harriers, a good bunch i met for the first time after the race.
5 miles, ran 37.34. Not too bad considering the start was 8AM !!
Great way to see Central Park, it is HUGE!! Brilliantly blue sky all day. Though Carly looks tired from her Trek despite all the sunshine.
Got subway down to Staten Island ferry terminal after the race (sore blister from them damn Mizuno Wave Riders though!! Should have stuck with the Pegasus, Nike is the Bible...never mind) Staten Island ferry takes 30 minutes, but is free, and gave awesome views of Ellis Island and that Statue of Liberty. Shame you can't go up inside anymore..."security concerns are cited..."
Got some fantastic pictures looking back towards NYC, then got the ferry back and walked back uptown, Wall St. NY Stock Exchange, WTC site. WTC site is huge. Didn't expect the gap left by them to be so huge. But the amount of sunlight which now comes in dwarfs that which other areas get. Massive building site. Slightly disrespectful place though, I thought...guys trying to sell 9/11 postcards of the planes going into the towers right next to the memorial...despite signs up saying that this is not allowed. Began to notice though, the adjacent building was, rather ironically, on fire. Smoke billowing from it. Considering 9/11 it's no surprise that it was drawing a huge crowd from mid town and the surrounding areas descending onto the site. Turns out it was the former Deutsche Bank HQ, which was almost totally destroyed on 9/11 and which they are now dismantelling floor by floor...
Writing this a day later and having read the New York Post, turns out a building contractor was smoking and 14 floors caught fire. Didn't realise the scale of it when I was there, but turns out two fireman died when we were there. The first since 9/11. Newspapers full of "our Bravest" etc.... and comparisons to 9/11....seems weird that the day we go is the day this happens.....
Went out for PASTA meat balls in the evening....Less than 5 quid ($10)!! And again, it was HUGE!!! Then lots of sleeeeeeeeeep...
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I love the way how the first thing you do is go in for a race! Reading all this is making me somewhat jealous that ive got to go back to durham!! Are there any pics of the chest resists? oh, and take back what you said about the wave riders.
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