Superbowl Sunday. Most people are dreaming about wings, bleu cheese, pizza, and nacho deluxe platters. Not Brad and I. We woke up at 6:45, quickly changed into our running gear (complete with Kiwanuka jersey for Jamie), and headed out in the frigid cold to run the NYRR Gridiron classic.
We picked up our race numbers on 89th street, headed over to 69th, and waited in the warmth of the car 'til about 8:20. Then we participated in the football throw (neither of us won, but we rocked it anyway!) and headed over to the start line, just to find that we had been placed in the yellow category.
See, NYRR is a show. They had announcers, a million porta-potties, t-shirts, bag checks, water stations, DJs, bagels, fruit... and this was just a 4 mile run. Only .9 more than a local 5K. Plus, they had you grouped by PACE. Yellow, meant fast. Or at least, in Brad and Jamie terms, considering that we haven't been running fast lately, we've been running long. It was 8:00 mile pace.
My knee is still not working, and it stinks. From the first mile, I knew I was going to be in pain, but I was hoping I could run through it, as this is part of the 9+! we need to qualify for automatic entry to the 2013 NYC Marathon. So I kept running, and running fast, even though I was literally petrified that each footfall would result in a knee-buckling-Jamie-fall.
We ran up hills, past the Modern, across at 102 Street, and then back down the west side of the park. The last stretch was mostly downhill, and Brad and I finished in approximately 32 minutes and change. Not sure of our exact result yet, as the clock started way before we crossed the starting line. Pretty sweet! Especially with a bum knee. We grabbed some water and an apple, walked over to our car, and were back in Yonkers by 10:00am. What did you do this morning?
GO GIANTS!!!!!!!
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