I am going to run the New York City Marathon.Yep. Yesterday I got my entry. One of the very many nice things about working at ASICS is that we are sponsor of the New York  Marathon and the company in Europe gets some entry numbers, and thanks to Jacques Valentin our promotions manager the Man and I get to go. Woohoo!!!! I definitely need a song for this……..

Knowing that I  will be  in New York in November seems to put my shin splints in perspective. This is the one which counts, so all steps made now are a step toward New York.It’s funny though, cos everytime we hit the little slopes on our runs, one of us usually cracks a joke about the hills in Central Park. We’ve been in New York in our heads for a while.

It’s that list:

the start at Staten

Verrazano Narrows

Brooklyn

Queens

The pain at Queensboro Bridge

the welcome of First Avenue

Bronx, and back

Harlem

Fifth Av

Central Park

and then the finish line outside the Tavern on the Green.

And here is the scenery to go with that:

what’s funny is 42km is even long on video…………………………