They are ALL important! This week's FAVE run

Your summer training this week turns it up a notch with the insertion of a low key interval workout of 3 X 1 Mile.  This is an incredibly important week in the summer training plan.  But they are ALL important.  I am not naive enough to think some current and potential team members have not run consistently this summer let alone followed the prescribed plan.  But I remain hopeful everybody will arrive at our first practice willing to put in the appropriate effort needed to result in a successful season.  I know the coaches are prepared to work side-by-side with you to help you achieve your goals, as individuals and as teams.  I also know Captains Coletti, Newman, Evans and Moscoso will be ready to lead you as well and look forward to a tremendous Fall.

I have spent the past few days in the Hudson Valley region of New York taking in some tourist sights that interest me (FDR Museum, Vanderbilt Mansion, U. S. Military Academy to name a few) but, as always, I took the opportunity to run while there.  The most interesting run was a 4.5 mile loop which took me out across the Walkway on the Hudson, formerly a 1.25 mile long railroad bridge which connects both sides of the Hudson in Poughkeepsie.  The walkway is 212 feet above the Hudson River and literally left this old acrophobic weak in the knees.  The return across the Roosevelt bridge was also intimidating as the running surface was narrower, the guard rail shorter, and the bridge construction allowed for a view directly below the span to the water's surface.  You may never have the chance to run here (unless you visit Vasser or Marist Colleges) but if you do, it is memorable . . .

The Walkway on the Hudson - 20 feet wide, 212 feet high

 A view of the Roosevelt Bridge from the Walkway