Friday Training Update

After a stiflingly humid stretch of weather, I've been slowly working in more training miles.  I'm still not training for any specific marathon yet, but I think that I'm targeting the Under Armour Baltimore Marathon.  It will be fairly cheap to get to, it has more affordable (and closer to the start/finish) hotel options, and the race taking place on a Saturday is huge, as it allows for a little bit more time to recover before going back to class.  But nothing is written in stone yet, and the Philadelphia Marathon still looks very appealing as well.

Randall's Island

I've recently been doing more runs on Randall's Island since the footbridge from 102nd street reopened.  It's a nice change of pace from Central Park, which can get a little bit crowded sometimes.  When we first moved up to East Harlem and I started running on Randall's Island, I remember thinking that doing a loop of the island was really tough and I felt accomplished if I made it all the way around without having to stop.  Now, I'm realizing that if I'm going to do some decent training on Randall's, I would need to do a few laps to get up to the milage I'm now accustomed to.