Week Six... I think... I've lost count...

Finished week six with a 14-mile trek through Rockafeller State Park up near Sleepy Hollow, New York. I met up with the team at Grand Central Station at 7:00 AM to catch the Metro-North train up to Phillipse Manor. Despite being half asleep, the train ride was beautiful and there were some fabulous views, the tracks ran right along the Eastern side of the Hudson.

We met up with the rest of the team around 8:20, including the Pace Group leaders who had gotten there even earlier, and our Coaches who had been there since 5 AM mapping out the course for us... huge shout to them for that!







Coach Adam went over the goals for today (#1 goal: to finish), and helped get us all fired up to attack some serious hills.















I stretched out before the run (thanks Omar for the nice shot of my butt!!)













We started our run around 9:45, and set off to conquer some serious hills, get some fresh air, and finish our longest run to date. My 9:30 pace group was awesome, we held our pace fairly consisitently throughout the run, we managed the long, steady incline 1-mile climb as well as the shorter, steeper ones, which were not so much fun (to say the least).


Saw some lovely scenery, wildlife, farm animals... nothing gets me in the mood for a long hill climb like the the smell of pig manure....







I survived my longest run to date thanks to a great group and a great pace group leader... props to Adam for keeping us all in line and getting us to the end in once piece!

Next weekend... the NYC Half Marathon (+ 3 miles after the finish, cause we're just that awesome)