sunday runday funday: superbowl 2011.

this past sunday was, of course, the superbowl.. which, for runners in nyc, means the gridiron classic as well.  thousands of new yorkers came out early sunday morning to get in a 4 mile run and maybe throw a football as far as they can, hoping to win a prize or two.  the majority of runners were out in a giants or a jets jersey (of course), but there were def a bunch of other teams represented as well, including a falcons jersey for BC's very own matty ice.  by far, the best i saw was a young guy in complete packers gear- head to toe football uniform, pads, even a helmet.. and when the girls and i passed him on the course, we saw that he was also carrying a football.  good looks, packers dude, good looks.

the race went well.  i met meg and lisa at the start, lisa had brought my bib and shirt so i geared up by clipping my number to my shirt, attaching my d-tag, and wrapping the shirt around my waist. i was glad it was a shorter race because running anything longer with a shirt wrapped around my waist probably would've gotten annoying.
in comparison to our last race together, sunday's run was like running in a sauna.  by the end of the race, the three of us were literally sweating, which is a far cry from where we were 4 miles into the manhattan-half a few weeks ago.

meghan was feeling good on sunday so she pushed our pace a little bit.  we finished with a pace of 10:07 which i'm definitely okay with.  it's not my best 4 mile pace but it's also not my worst.  also, our first mile was pretty slow but it was definitely not due to our running slower.. there were just so many people!  i felt so completely claustrophobic.  i kept thinking that we were way too fast to be surrounded by the people we were running near.  we kept having to zig-zag through people to be able to run comfortably where we wanted to be.  that first mile was a 10:45.. our last mile was a 9:33.. you do the math.  if it weren't for that first mile, i think our final pace would've been a bit faster.  ahh well.

anywho, afterwards i went home, took a nap, and got ready for super bowl craziness.  and seeing as though i haven't given him a shoutout in my blog since sophomore year of college, congrats bj on your first super bowl ring!   woohoo :-)

aaand in closing, this past week i signed up for the next of the series: the brooklyn half.  spot conlon's territory.

p.s. if you got that reference, you are awesome.