Today was the Naples Park to Park 10k Run in Central Park. (That's a whopping 6.2 miles for those who don't know.) My first 10k, my longest run yet!

Beautiful weather. A nice upper 70s-80s, shady and breezy under the trees and not warm under the sun. I was really good about keeping a nice easy pace throughout, conserving energy, and only ran hard the last mile.

Our times

It was long, but I'm proud of running the entire length, only stopping twice for water and a 15 second walk. I was very surprised that my pace was under a 12 minute mile. Slow and steady is the key, but that's hard to stick to sometimes.

I can't believe I'm at my half way point. Seems crazy when I think about having to do that run TWICE in a row. Or when I look at this map of what I ran! I looked out Elaine's kitchen window this morning at Central Park. The far end of it was so far away it was like hazy over there... I really can't believe the distances I'm running.

The treads on my sneakers I bought just a few months ago are already worn down, I need to get a second pair to even out the wear on them. I have never had to replace out a sneaker in less than a year, EVER.

So the ridiculous thing is that after the run, we decided to walk back to her apartment on the lower west side of the park. The finish line was all the way at the upper east side of the park. Somehow along the way we decide to walk around the resevoir for a change of scenery. We're walking and walking, and somehow ended up walking past the lower part of the resevoir and ended up walking right back up the east side again before we realized we were in the 70s again on the wrong side. So we turn around and walk down museum mile. We're STARVING at this point and go into the Met to eat in there.

Both of us have free admission due to our kick-ass companies we work for. So we walk around in there hunting for food, half wanting to look at the cool stuff inside, and half just need to stuff our faces with food. We evenually get food in the cafeteria in there. I eat too much, and even have a chocolate cupcake... the eating healthy thing has been really hard for me. I am so starving after a run I overindulge which is not good. I also have bad cravings for bad food for some reason.

Anyways, we leave there to walk off our lunch. We got a ways to walk and our feet and legs are REALLY starting to ache. We walk and walk, and it's neverending. I think by the time we get back to her apartment we had walked another 10k in distance between going down the length of the park (the lost and scenic route), and all the looping we did at the Met.

Anyways, time for a shower...