Everything is so New York City these days. The worlds biggest marathon pulls all the attention towards the big apple.
mzungo.org has a special about the race and everything that´s gonna happen around it. check it out!
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At 13.1 miles, runners cross the Pulaski Bridge, marking the halfway point of the race and the entrance into Queens. After about two and a half miles in Queens, runners cross the East River on the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan. It is at this point in the race when many runners begin to tire, as the climb up the bridge is considered one of the most difficult points in the marathon.
The Queensboro Bridge is a double cantilever bridge, as it has two cantilever spans, one over the channel on each side of Roosevelt Island. The bridge does not have suspended spans, so the cantilever arm from each side reaches to the mid-point of the span.
The bridge has two levels. Originally the top level contained two pedestrian walks and two elevated railway tracks (as a spur from the IRT Second Avenue Elevated Line) and the lower deck four motor traffic lanes, and what is now the “outer roadway” and pedestrian walk were two trolley lanes. A trolley connected passengers from Queens and Manhattan to a stop in the middle of the bridge, where passengers could take an elevator or the stairs down to the island. The trolley operated from the bridge’s opening until April 7, 1957. The railway was removed in the late 1930s and early 1940s as well as the 2nd Avenue Elevated Line. The trolley lanes and mid-bridge station, as well as the stairs, were removed in the 1950s, and for the next few decades the bridge carried 11 lanes of automobile.
source: WIKIPEDIA
Its not only me who has some fears before a big race. even ryan hall is afraid…
The training-weeks are flying by. From today on its just 14 days to race day.
The weekly mileage dropped again. I took a spontaneous rest day on Wednesday as i was feeling tired and had no intension to go out running in the rain. A main focus these days is to stay healthy. I try to get as much sleep in as i can (Averaged roughly 8.5h a night this week), get good food in and wash the hands a bit more then i usually do. The last thing i want these days is a cold or the flu.
Training went OK. This week saw three faster sessions. Tuesday Night i headed to Newbridge to get a couple of 800m intervals on the grass track (see picture). On Thursday i stayed local for a Marathon Pace run. I started off with 20 minutes at Marathon Pace and worked my speed down to half marathon pace.
The long and hard session was, as always, on sunday. Phoenix Park is just a brilliant training spot so i ran my 80 minutes Marathon Pace workout around there. Despite the stomach problem at the end the session went OK.
I continue to decrease the weekly mileage to safe the legs for the bridges.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson
Recap WK42
Total 88k with 6 runs in 7 day
3 weeks to New York CityMonday – Easy – 7k
Tuesday – Interval’s (Newbridge Track) – 12k
Wednesday – Rest Day
Thursday – Tempo Run – 16k
Friday – Moderate – 10k
Saturday – Moderate – 15k
Sunday – Tempo – 28k
Just found the nice blog post by Fitsugar while surfing the net. Its all NYC these days!
On Nov. 1, the New York City Marathon celebrates not only the fastest endurance runners in the world but its 40th anniversary as well. Runner’s World was chock-full of information about the race, and it got me all fired up. Here are five things about the marathon I think you will want to know.
1.Back in 1970 there were 127 participants running in the first NYC Marathon, all of them American, and the entry fee was only a buck.
2.This year there will be 40,000 runners participating, and they won their places at the starting line through a lottery. However, 5,000 spots are held for charity programs. Christopher Reeves’s son Matthew will be running 26.2 miles to honor his father, the actor who played Superman, as well as to raise money for his father’s foundation.
3.In the inaugural year of the NYC marathon, no women finished. In fact only 55 runners finished. Now 34 percent of the runners are female — that’s 12,880 ladies crossing the finish line.
4.The last year an American topped the podium was 1982, and the runner was Alberto Salazar with a time of 2:09:29. Alberto coaches my favorite runner Kara Goucher. She placed third last year in this race, her first marathon. She’s considered a contender for the win this year. Go Kara!
5.The winner for the first NYC marathon was former firefighter Gary Muhrcke (2:31:00). Before the race, he worked an all-night shift. He plans on racing this year too.
after watching ireland playing italy in the 2010 world cup qualifier on saturday i went to croke park again to see the boys in green playing montenegro. one of the worst football matches i have ever seen. the atmosphere was good despite the worse game. if the team doesn’t entertain – the crowd does!
im waiting for the play-offs now – bring it on!
New York is getting closer and closer. From now on its 3 week till the sound of the gun on Staten Island.
Training is fine so far. The left foot is back to satisfying business. Completely pain free so speed work is back on the weekly work schedule. And exactly that is what my legs are missing. High leg turnover – fast session – hard workouts.
Long runs seem to fly and i enjoy them a lot. The interval session and the pace run this week was a prime example. Still struggling with those hard stuff, but it is exactly what my body needs.
These days i try to avoid running longer than 1 hour during the week as i need to relax the legs for the race and focus on the key sessions (the fast stuff and the long run).
On Sunday coach uli prescribed me a nice marathon focused workout. I ran 80 minutes with a moderate pace together with Eugene in Phoenix Park. When he dropped out i changed shoes and ran 60 minutes in Marathon pace. The legs felt great and the speed was steady and completely on race pace (i would say i slightly went faster…). I ran the hilliest route i could find in Phoenix Park just to get the legs and mind prepared for the bridges around the 5 boroughs. The workout went fine overall and after struggling with the fast sessions during the week that run gave me my confidence back.
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
4 Weeks to New York City Marathon
Total of 92k. with 6 runs in 7 days
Monday – Easy – 8k.
Tuesday – Intervals, Bushy Park (8 X 1k.) – 12k.
Wednesday – Moderate (Wednesday Night Runners Tallaght) – 14k.
Thursday – Pace Run – 11 k.
Friday – Rest Day – 0 k.
Saturday – Moderate – 13k.
Sunday – Long + Pace – 34k.
that secound weekend in october is still the shit! stunning race again this year. just a short sleep for me as im stuck in front of the ironman live ticker and the live stream of the race… GO faris GO – the boy is a legend!
oh yeah. kona is calling. the race of the year – ironman world champs.
My little prediction:
1 – Bracht Timo
2 – Alexander Craig
3 – Llanos Eneko
4 – McCormack Chris
5 – Vanhoenacker Marino
6 – Vernay Patrick
7 – Raelert Andreas
8 – Schildknecht Ronnie
9 – Lieto Chris
10 – Bockel Dirk
Good Timo Bracht interview on slowtwitch!
