Snowshoeing in Central Park

So the extreme cold spell finally broke and we have once again been hit with another snowstorm.  What better way to take advantage of it then to strap on a pair of snowshoes and head for the park. It's not very often that New Yorkers get the opportunity to snowshoe in their backyard!

I met up with Silke and we headed for the northern woods to make some fresh tracks in the snow.  I forgot how exhausting snowshoeing can be but it sure was a lot of fun.

Silke

When all was said and done, according to my garmin, I got a total of 7 miles in. 

Dirt Proof: Race Across The Sky

I never did post my race report for Leadville Trail 100.  It was taking me forever to write, then school started and I just forgot to finish it.  However, I wanted to share a link on my blog of one of my crew and pacers that wrote a report about what she observed at the race. 

Dirt Proof: Race Across The Sky

Ted Corbitt 15k Race Report

           This was my last race of the 2010 season and it will be my first blog entry!  Hurray!  I use these shorter races (under a half-marathon) to test my fitness and track my progression from year to year and I don’t spend any time training for them. My goal coming into this race was just to beat my time from last year of 58:37 a 6:18 minute per mile pace and I succeeded.  I finished in 55:49 a 6:00 minute per mile pace.

            I must admit I was a little bummed when I got the official results because according to my watch and several pace calculators it came out to a 5:59 minute per mile pace, and how cool would that have been to have an under 6 minute mile race under my belt!  I don’t have an official race on record under a 6 minute pace yet, but I can and am sure I will do it.  I was trying figure out why there was a discrepancy and then I discovered that NYRR calculates the pace by miles and not kilometers.  So if you average my pace as 54:49 for 15k and not 9.3 miles it comes to a 5:59 pace.  Oh well hopefully next time I can get it under 6 on the books.

            The conditions today were a little cool but you could not have asked for better running weather since there was very little wind.  I started the morning out by leading a small group warm up with TriLife just in time to get to the corral for the start of the race.  Below are my splits.

Weather:  31 Degrees, 64% Humidity, Wind 3MPH, Fair.

Course Map

Mile 1 - 5:57

Mile 2 - 5:46

Mile 3 - 6:02   Cat hill

Mile 4 - 5:51

Mile 5 - 6:06   Rolling hills on west side

Mile 6 - 5:53

Mile 7 - 6:00

Mile 8 - 6:16  Cat hill

Mile 9 - 6:03   Beginning to fade

Mile .3- 1:51

Finish  54:49 

I ended up placing 32^nd overall out of 3541 and 4^th out of 347in my age group.  Not a bad day.