Dashing Whippets Running Team

January 28, 2012 9:00 AM - 26 attended

Manhattan Metric Marathon

Selected By: Evan

Amy, Jim, Evan, Mwangi and Adam are going to host a metric marathon. The meeting point will be the Time Warner Center on 59th and Columbus. The route can be found here.

Head west from Time Warner, up along the Hudson on the path to near Riverbank, then south again back to Time Warner. Enter the Park, run up the West side around the top of the park, cut across the park above theReservoir at 96th Street and do an upperloop of the Park again to end at 90th. This should be 16 total miles.

If you want to do 10 miles, you can stop at Time Warner again or you can do the whole 16 and finish at the Reservoir at 90th Street. There should be several pace groups at around 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30 per mile.

Matthew
Hey all, just changed the meetup info to incorporate Scott's suggestion for a metric marathon. Hopefully we'll get a good turnout!

Posted January 23 at 4:47 PM
Mwangi
This is a phenomenal turnout! Please post the pace that you'd like to run, as well as the distance, so we can better gauge participation. Thanks!!

Posted January 26 at 1:36 PM
Matthew
Just so everyone notices - the meetup location is inside the Time Warner Center Atrium.

Posted January 27 at 10:31 PM
Lindsay
is there by any chancea a place to leave bags nearby?

Posted January 27 at 11:54 PM
Mwangi
Lindsay, the NY Running Company (Time Warner bldg, 2nd floor) might let you drop off your bag with them. They host weekend runs and usually let people do this.

Posted January 28 at 7:13 AM
Simon D
@Mwangi - NY Running Co isnt open until 10 unfortunately. I checked for myself.

Posted January 28 at 7:19 AM
Mwangi
Thanks Simon. Something to think about for future Saturday runs.

Posted January 28 at 7:32 AM
steve ryan
Is this going to be a every week run

Posted January 28 at 11:35 AM
Matthew
Yeah, we're hoping to have a good group run every Saturday - different route and distance though. The guys are working on planning next week's run as we speak!

Posted January 28 at 11:38 AM
Yosuke Matsumura
Great run everyone! It was a beautiful day for running!

Posted January 28 at 11:43 AM
Catie Brennan
Thanks for pacing us, Mwangi!

Posted January 28 at 12:00 PM | 1 like
Marvin
great turnout, awesome run

Posted January 28 at 12:06 PM
Shannon
Great meeting everyone, nice day too!

Posted January 28 at 12:12 PM
Simon D
Great run guys!! Thanks for waiting for me at the start. It was such a lovely day to run. honored as always to run with my whippet brothers and sisters.

Posted January 28 at 12:31 PM
warren
Even though the Running Company is not open until 10am but someone from the store told me that there will be an employee at the store from 9am and you can get in from the backdoor and leave your bag there.

Posted January 28 at 12:47 PM
Mwangi
We had a great turnout today! Thanks to the pace leaders for leading the way, and for everyone else who came out. I saw quite a few new faces! We will definitely keep these runs going! Just a point to note, the RI running Company opens at 10am on Saturdays and they're fine with bag drop offs so that is an option for future runs. 10am Saturdays and 11am on Sundays.

Posted January 28 at 12:51 PM
Simon D
Out of interest did anyone actually get to 26km/16mi? I saw fragments of the group in the park but I couldn't tell who was where in the run. I hit the wall hard at 13 and squeezed out 15mi.

Posted January 28 at 1:21 PM
Attreyee
I managed to do 16 :) although at a slower pace ~10:00

Posted January 28 at 1:50 PM | 2 likes
Michelle
Great turnout today, it was nice to run outside of CP. Shout out to all the new Whippets, glad you joined us.

Posted January 28 at 2:49 PM
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