Today was a perfect day for a run in Central Park: sunny, cool, good positive energy. Although, I wasn't feeling so hot, to be honest. My mom made my these Korean buns for breakfast and I couldn't say, "No, I'm about to head on a run." I ate and an hour later I could feel the buns slowly expand in my stomach as the race progressed. But despite that, I still managed to PR! Four miles in 37:40.
I even did one mile in under 9 minutes. I actually feel like I've earned my pink bib. It was worth the very short visit home (which, sadly, I spent sleeping since I was transitioning back to days).
On a serious note, NYRR has done a Japan Day run for a couple of years now, at least that I've noticed. This year they collected on-site donations to support earthquake and tsunami relief efforts. That's not all. They are doing a virtual Run/Walk to Benefit Japan. Between 1 May and 22 May, you have to run or walk four miles and just submit your result using a Garmin/Nike+/mapmyrun/etc. I signed up and am hoping to best the race pace I did today, but I doubt it will happen. Still, it will be fun to compare my Central Park 4-miler to the Mall 4-miler.
There was one funny thing of note. As I was driving over the GW bridge into NYC, there were hundreds of cyclists on the other side of the bridge heading into NJ! It was the starting (and end) point for the Gran Fondo New York Bike Race -- just a little 100 mile bike ride. At least I'm not that crazy!
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