5th Avenue Mile

The much anticipated 5th Avenue Mile was this past weekend, on September 21st.  After not a lot of training, but a lot of hype, I ended up running a 4:48 for the mile.  This was what I expected I could run, and I ran pretty much how I felt.  Decent. 

This past weekend was full of "stuff" though.  Paul and Leanne came up and stayed with Jeff this weekend.  On Friday night, I ran with a co-worker in Central Park, then went out for drinks with him.  Later on in the night, I met up with Jeff, Paul and Leanne and at a Restaurant and we hung out for a while, just catching up and talking.

On Saturday morning, Kyle Dragan and Eric Finan (two guys from UC’s cross country team) came up and we ran the Big East Cross Country Course up at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.  We watched a collegiate race that Michigan dominated, and enjoyed the nice, hilly course.  The rest of the day Saturday – we hung out in Central Park and went to the zoo (all 6 of us!) and then went to grab some food.  Dragan, Finan and I went down to the Financial District and checked out the NY Stock Exchange, the Bull, then hit up Battery Park to see the Statue of Liberty.  We then went to Ground Zero.  After that, we picked Christine up at the train station, and had dinner.  Then I was off to see a Broadway show!  I saw ‘Young Frankenstein’ with Jeff, Paul, and Leanne.  It was really good – funny, clever, and the music and dancing was really top-notch.  I’ve seen two shows now (Spamalot) and both didn’t disappoint. 

After the busy day of Saturday, I had to wake up early and race the mile!  We hung out the rest of the day, just watching the Bengals game at Phebe’s, the Bengals bar.  I fell asleep on the couch at 9 Sunday night, I was so exhausted.  Never a dull weekend in New York!