I’m a little too worn out after today’s hot and humid 11-mile run to write very coherently about it. Suffice it to say, we all finished, but that’s about it. I was soaked straight through with sweat. It’s quite rare that my entire shirt is drenched, but today was one of those days of 80% humidity.

We started in Battery Park and ran north along the West Side of Manhattan (you can check out a map of the route here). Suzanne and I dropped Cari off at 116th Street, where Cari reached her 11-mile mark because she ran down from the West Village to meet us to begin with. Suz and I kept right on going up to the George Washington Bridge at 181st Street. We stretched out near the Little Red Light House and then walked up to street level, washed the salt from our faces in the restroom at Starbucks, and bought some fortification for the train ride home at Jin’s Suprette, my favorite bodega while I was in grad school. It was kind of neat to end up in my old neighborhood and pass through my old running haunts.

Now I am tired and enjoying lazing about while it storms outside. My training over the past week went well: a 45-minute tempo run, a 4.5-mile run in the park, and then a 3-mile run. This coming week, I’ll keep the runs short, make sure I get lots of rest and eat lots of healthy food, and then I should be well-prepared for the race on August 5th!