AHA NYRR Wall Street Run

This was a super fun race. Reagan and I both loved it. The finish line was right outside the entrance to my building. So it was super convenient for us. Our friend Jared came down and ran it with us too. He and Reagan actually finished together. Reagan’s goal was 23 minutes. Mine was 20 minutes. Reagan made her goal by 8 seconds. I was 22 seconds slower than I was hoping. I was happy about having a pace that was well under 7 minutes, though. I also was happy with my Nike Plus band. I re-calibrated it, using the 10K last Saturday. It recorded 2.93 miles today. Only .07 off. I can live with that. I always forget to stop recording after I finish the race though, which kills the pace stat. I guess that I can only blame myself for the human-error factor. Hahaha.

The problem with this race (and all races that are predominantly desk jockeys) is that like the JPM Corporate challenge, there are no assigned starting chutes. So you get speed walkers lining up in the 6 min/mile chute. So unless you are on the front row for the gun, you spend the first half of the race weaving traffic. This is especially difficult on a course that winds around the narrow canyons of the financial district and bottle necks in multiple locations. All things considered, it was a really cool race. The AHA raised over 2 million dollars. There were a bunch of sponsors handing out swag in the north cove marina afterwards, and the weather could not have been more ideal.

FYI, I did not take this photo. I borrowed it from the NYRR site.