I’ve been warned not to get my hopes up, but GMR teammate JD is blogging over at Runner’s World online. Check out his post about Facebook, it made me laugh out loud (I am an adamant Facebook abstainer)… Poet, children’s book author and cool Atlantan lady LS has a poem up at Starting Today (poems for the first 100 days of the Obama administration). The politically-minded of you may wish to check it…. Husband has always been a clipper. Even when we were dating he’d mail me newspaper articles about places he wanted to take me or things he thought would make me laugh. Now he clips articles about running and leaves them around the apartment for me to find, like this one about Rose Kosgei (who came in third last year at the Fifth Avenue Mile), or this one about a barefoot runner… Valentine’s Day is a load of bullshit, but I’m spending time with an artist I love on the eve….. I’m not the only blogger who ran the Bronx Half-Marathon this weekend. Read other reports of the race at Live to Run-Run to Live (“this course stinks like a 3-days-gone hooker”), Runner NYC spots her annual dead rat on the course, The Brooklyn Beast cut short his race to accompany a fellow runner tothe hospital (then ran home to Brooklyn), I feel your pain, Cowboy Hazel, but I take comfort in the strong race the Laminator had despite the headwinds that dogged us all…. And lastly, track and field factotum JPM shared this video of Alan Webb’s July 6, 2007 win in Paris at the IAAF Golden League track meet 1500 meter race as evidence towards his point that Webb Is Great, and also as evidence that the Brits are much better at announcing running events than us Yanks (no argument from me on that point)….
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Pigtails Flying 
Wow, that guy’s got some issues with the Bronx and with the HM course. I think it’s a good course; the stretch on the Concourse will make or break you. Especially with a wind. And except for that one sharp hill early on that you hit coming back, I don’t think there were any hills of note, except for the nice, gradual one on Mosholu Parkway. Yes, I like nice, gradual hills.
FWIW, I consider the Fairfield Half to be a perfect course.
Joe I agree with you, I think the Bronx is a pretty good one, apart from the wind tunnel that is the Grand Concourse.
Kind of off-topic, sometimes I think people from the Bronx are the only New Yorkers left still carrying on our most local excellent accent–everyone from Manhattan is either a transplant or so educated they’ve lost their verbal locator. (Of course, I have just completely disregarded Queens, Staten Island and that other borough… what’s it called?… oh yeah Brooklyn!… in my half-baked opinion.)
But am I mistaken in not thinking of it as a hilly course? That’s what folks are saying in their reports, i.e., how hilly it was.
I totally consider it a FLAT course.
Really? It seemed so much more hilly to me than Manhattan. Do you all consider Central Park hilly or flat?
Central Park is neither. There’s hardly a flat step, but mostly it’s rolling hills. Either way (clockwise or counter-) has two decent hills, but they’re easily manageable and allow for quick recovery.
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