I have today off from work and so far my day has involved only one thing: running.
I forced myself out of bed at 8:45 am. I feel guilty when I sleep in. Does anyone else get that? Like if I sleep too late, I feel like I’m wasting the day.
Anyway.
I ate some breakfast, did some crunches, stretched a bit and caught up on all of my favorite blogs.
Then I suited up and made my way to Central Park.
It was 25 degrees. Not too bad!
I ran 12.2 miles. Not too bad!
I’ll admit, the run wasn’t easy. My legs tightened up a few times and I stopped to stretch at the top of almost every hill I conquered. I don’t know what pace I stuck with, and I did stop at the lovely new Tavern on the Green bathrooms at one point.
Before I get my act together and head out for an afternoon of Christmas shopping, here’s my own little photo essay chronicling this morning’s run through Central Park. Enjoy!












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I love to run in Downtown Jacksonville. It isn’t (to0) busy and running along the St. John’s River is lovely!
I also love running the Mall in DC! 🙂 Running by all the monuments is so cool! I’m hoping to do it next week!
Beautiful pictures! I’ll take your 25 degrees and no snow over the -5 (that’s “negative” 5), snow, and ice I had this morning! I just ran 4 miles around the neighborhood I live in; that was all the cold my body could handle.
I live in Astoria, Queens and love to run across the Queensboro Bridge…I’d heard that’s one of the toughest parts of the NYC marathon course, so I was a whiz at it by the time Race Day came along. 🙂 Love running to CP from there, but hate having to get through soooo many people on the UES.
I also love to run through Astoria Park, which is along the East River.
Wow! I have been to Central Park once last year and I only got to the zoo part. I had no idea it was this BIG!!
My favorite place to run is the Lakeshore. It motivates me to run as I see other runners and the lake is so beautiful to look at. You just don’t see the mileage add up when you run in a nice place 🙂
This was amazing. Beautiful pics and really cool to see everything. I’ve run in Central Park before but had no idea what was around. I would kill for a great path like that in walking distance. That’s great:)
I really enjoy running routes I’ve never down before, really helps break monotony on long runs.