The first Run is in the Books!

Workout: 7 Miles

Today was the beginning of my NYC Marathon Training Program. I’ll be training with the KAR/Gazelle program again this summer. Last year I think I burnt out driving to Kalamazoo on Saturdays as well as Tuesdays & Thursday for the various run. This year I’m going to stick with the Saturday runs and then try to make it to speedwork training on Tuesdays. But if I have to miss it that’s OK too.

This morning we ran 7 miles through Western’s Campus. It was pretty fun but I just about puked on a long uphill. Looks like I will have to get some more hill workouts into my program. I lined up with the 9:30 pace group. I think we were actually running a little faster (9:15’s) which seemed fine. I may need to bump up to the 9:00/m pace before we are done, but for now this seems like a good crowd.

Anyway it’s good to be underway again. I’m finding it tough to run at night though so I am going to try to make myself run in the mornings. We’ll see how that works out.

7 miles/64:45/9:15avg

Woo Hoo! I’m In!

From the New York Road Runners

Dear Thomas Wiswell

Congratulations! You have a confirmed spot in the ING New York City Marathon 2007. You're in for the experience of a lifetime.

I really had resigned myself to not getting in. Especially when I read the article that 98,000 people had applied. I am very geeked and already have multiple hotel rooms book (at $450/night). It’s not cheap to stay in the City, but oh well.

So it looks like Dublin will have to wait for another year. I was kind of excited about that race as well but truly NYC is my first choice.

Please let me know if you’d like to come root me on as I have plenty of rooms. Just start saving your pennies now!