Race Recap: Wall Street Run

Yesterday evening was beautiful for a 3 mile race.  The Wall Street Run began at 7PM.  Alek and I lined up on Greenwhich Street at 6:30 and waited while our Garmins found GPS in the skyscraper valley.  The Wall Street Run has no formalized corral system so everyone self organized into what they thought their pace would be (or well, they were supposed to...).

Waiting for the race to start in the valley of skyscrapers.

The race actually began a bit after 7PM.  It was fun to run on closed off streets downtown.  Many of these streets are fairly narrow and that combined with the somewhat disorganized start area made it difficult to maintain any sort of pace.  At various points on the course, pedestrians crossed somewhat dangerously between runners.  I managed to run into someone (whoever you are, sorry about that)!

Alek and I ran together for the first two miles (yeah Alek!  He hasn't trained much over the past few months).  After that he told me to go ahead, so I darted off without him for the last mile.

This year's Wall Street Run passed over Wall Street three times but the course never actually followed Wall Street.  It finished close to the river where the path narrowed enough to make a half mile sprint across the finish line impossible.

Despite the crowded course, the race was a lot of fun.  It was great to run a race that didn't require us to get up in the wee hours of the morning.

I finished a few minutes ahead of Alek and waited for him at the finish line!  Usually he's the one waiting for me, but not yesterday!  I finished in 28:24 for a pace of 9:28, Alek was 30:32 for a pace of 10:11.  Full results can be found on the NYRR results site.

We finished!