Sunday the crew training for the Jersey marathon (plus a good number of other folk) ran a sweet out and back to Flushing Meadows. You may know it as the home of the Unisphere, or the location of the alien spaceships from the movie "Men In Black". I wrote about my one way run to QMA previously.
Some of the highlights were grabbing a lemon ice at the Lemon Ice King of Corona (he deserves the self-applied handle), a tour of Flushing Meadows park that included the Queens Museum of Art, the Unisphere and the observation tower/pavilion, and of course Lefrak City. "Live a Little Better", indeed. Words of encouragement for anybody who commutes on the LIE, it was neat to run through the ground level of that monstrosity.
Coach O. and I picked up the last two miles of the twelve miler to 6:15 - 6:30 pace, which I didn't anticipate being within my reach. Slowly but surely.
Monday was a light short recovery jog, and then to the track yesterday for an interval workout with plyometrics for recovery, [laugh]. That workout brought the pain, and not wanting to be totally wiped for both Thursday mornings long run and the race this weekend, I laid off a bit. That left me with too much left in my tank, so I ran a few extra miles on my way home. I'm still trying to figure this out, the continual dance of asking enough of myself and staying healthy. So far I'm pleased with my footwork.
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