Over the past few weeks I did two races with my son.  One was a 3M cross country race through Prospect Park last weekend and another was a 3.4 mile loop around Prospect Park today.  My son was eager to do both races.  In fact he was over eager as he went out too hard in both and got a bad cramp.  He fought through the cramp though and finished each race.  He was very proud of himself for doing so and so was I.  My son even said that he would start coming out with me to train now and then.  Hopefully I could get him to come out regularly and get him in shape.

After today’s race, I called up my usual running partner and we set out for what we called the Parkway to Expressway run.  It consisted of running down through Prospect Park, out onto Ocean Parkway, down Bay Parkway to the bay and then along Shore Parkway to where it exits near the Gowanus Expressway.  We then ran down 2^nd Avenue to head back towards home.  It was along this section that Larry might have even saved me as I tripped over something embedded in the road and almost took a really nasty spill into oncoming traffic.  At the last second before I feel, Larry caught my arm and kept me from going down.  The roadbed consisted of cobblestones which had old railroad tracks embedded in it.  If I went down it would have been very ugly.

We made it home without incident after that.  We ran a total of 14.3 miles in an elapsed time of 2:20.  A little slow, but that counted all the time we were stopped for traffic lights, etc. 

I checked my training log after today’s run and I saw that I need 52 more miles to break 1000 for this year.  Fortunately, I still have time to make that milestone.  It will suck to miss breaking 1000 miles by so short of a distance.