The Joe Nation 2007 NYC Marathon Log

That would be great! I'll be there the morning of July 16th.

Mornings start around here at 5:33AM.

Joe(gatorade provided)Nation

Not 5:30, not 5:35.
You run a tight ship, cap'n!

5:33 is when the A train arrives at the 59th Street/Columbus Circle station. I lope up the stairs, take a quick sip from the fountain and head North for three, five or (this week galldarn it!!) six miles. I get to the Scholar's Gate at Fifth Ave about six thirty, jog over to Lexington and catch the 6 train down to my gym at 23rd and Park. That gives me enough time to shower, change and head to the local Starbucks to read the papers and sip a big black coffee before opening the store. (Which I have to do on the morning of the sixteenth.)\ Darn.

\ So what is the complete NYC schedule for your honor?

Joe(If not a run together, a noontime nosh, yes?)Nation

Wow!

George has 8888 posts!

Yes. and in slightly more than twenty per cent of them he has made sense.

Joe(I'm at seventeen per cent and holding)Nation

Only because they were in Latin.

The hotel is only about a kilometer from Columbus Circle.
Assuming I can drag my sorry keister out of bed,
I'll meet you at the fountain at 5:33.

Oh yeah...
where's the fountain exactly? Is it the big one in the circle?

Um..... not the FOUNTAIN, the drinking fountain right by the Merchant's Gate.

(New Yorkers are the bravest people in the world- we drink from public fountains and we buy and eat boiled meats sold from mobile carts parked on the sidewalk.)

This meet-up will be great. We'll trade some more details as the day gets closer.

Joe(oh boy, coach is coming to NYC)Nation

I get it.

Did a slow 3-miler in 94 degrees. It felt even hotter.



But I did get some shade from the buzzards circling overhead.

fighting jetlag, i chose offense instead of defense. went to the gym, did 1/2 hour on eliptical, ran 2 miles (much easier inside in an air conditioned gym) and did some weights and stuff.
feeling good.

I screwed up too.

I rolled over this morning and promised myself I would do five miles tonight. Well, that turned into three miles, not counting the part where I tried to cut through the Ramble, got turned around and ended up right back on the East Side Drive where I started.


Brutal, with the passing thunderclouds threatening and flashing what looked like a light show gone mad.

Really enjoyed reaching the end of tonight's run.

Joe(I dripped dripped dripped all the way home)Nation

hiked the blueberry bear trail last evening , and returned in the dark. (HAve to plan departures better or Ill be sleeping in the woods).
Reminder to self-- Chuck Taylors are lousy hiking shows. The woods up here are still springtime soggy, not like back at home.

I am really happy that you, Farmerman, are back tromping around amongst the flora and fungi.

Tonight's run (why can't I get my sh_t together after my vacation?) turned torrential. Most of the running was getting to the nearest subway entrance and praying (to whom I do not know) that
1) the trains wouldn't be drowned into standstillness
and
2) my Treo hadn't gotten too soaked. (They were running and the phone blipped and bleated nicely)

I have to get out tomorrow morning or end up the week with less than ten miles.

Joe(and I want to take a few shots of the meet up place.)Nation

My week is also in the dumpster. I'm used to taking my lunch hour to jog,
but this week the jog kept getting pre-empted. I'm going to heve to get
creative.

Staggered out of bed this AM and (after procrastinating for an hour) got on the train and went to the park.

Took some pics. (to come)

Headed North on the drive with about as much enthusiasm as any other condemned prisoner, but right about the two and half mile mark (the point at which I can turn sideways and head bedward) I suddenly felt GREAT and pushed through the rest of the circle for 5.1 .
May add about four tomorrow which would bring me to 400 miles for the year.

Joe(Half Marathon is 38 days away)Nation

Beautiful night last night. The park was crammed with thousands of people. I passed a group of couples dancing to the music of a big band, they were waltzing and foxtrotting, I was doing both. A concert at the shell let out just as I was getting to the turn so I had to wend my way around a couple of hundred people standing in the middle of the road.

I do so like to wend.

I broke free of the crowds around mile three and took a nice taxi ride behind a new rollerblader and her boyfriend.

(Have I explained "taxi rides"? When I am getting tuckered I wait until I am passed by someone going just a little faster than I am, then I try and stay with them, catching a ride as they inspire, tug, me to run faster. I call them taxis.)

Running south with a half a bottle of Gatorade left and a half a mile to go I saw a huge crowd moving up from the Tavern on the Green to some shindig across the the Meadow. Haven't a clue about where all of them were going.

I did my five plus giving me about 17 for the week. Just over 90 miles for the month of June and topping 400 miles for the year.

life is good.

Joe(pics this afternoon of the Merchant's Gate meeting place)Nation

Mornin Joe
Today I cut 2.5 ha of trees down. I dont need to run.

But you go ahead I'll just watch from here and cheer you to the finish line

Chainsaw or doubleaxe?

Joe(Now, who's going to split all this wood?)Nation

Huski 372, directional felling. Mind you they were only little buggers. Thinnings for firewood.