Today’s run was interesting. I spent a great number of hours today at the New York Stock Exchange and Helen Hays Theatre playing a huge costume character called “Larry the Stag” for The Hartford. Physically, I was pretty spent. However, I did get the evening free and it was still daylight, so I said to myself, Ya know what, I should run.
And I did. And it so happened that Elizabeth Corkum was about to run around the same time was going to. So I got her to delay her run so that we could run together. Which was funny, because when we arrived in Central Park, the television show White Collar was shooting at our subway exit … which Elizabeth is working on tomorrow … which I’m working on Wednesday and Thursday … and then a production assistant we both know from the television show Mercy, Ryan, who was working White Collar, showed up at the top of the steps we were trying to mount, saw me, then Elizabeth, and suffice it to say, it was crazy-happy! Elizabeth even screamed.
That was fun. The run was fun too, at least for me. For Elizabeth, it was a test of her body. She is running with some serious pain, and it seemed to me today’s run was a lesson in pain for her. For me, it was a nice run to have in light of all my exertion and exhaustion from earlier today.
We started off at a pretty fast clip, with our first mile knocked out in 7:08. Whoa! Each mile after then was a little slower, but by the end, we had a sub-8:00 pace–7:58s, in fact! Great, Elizabeth! Nothing really special for me to report about my run, though it will be interesting to see what my body will be like tomorrow. That stag costume puts strain at the base of my neck, which is the area where I tend to get pinched nerves. I’m trying to massage and take care, but there are some obstacles in the next few days that may conflict with that goal. We’ll see!
Oh, and some tidbits: 58 degrees and windy–BRR! I had an ArginMax and quercetin just before the run, as well as lobster sushi. 🙂