I took it a little slower today, visiting a couple museums and walking the last mile of the New York City Marathon through Central Park. The last mile is hilly, so I’ll need to try and mentally prepare for it.
This was my third full day and New York and I’m just overwhelmed with the city. It is like walking through Disneyland, just so much stimuli going on around you and the city is so photogenic. It’s no wonder artists flock here in droves to be inspired. And everything is just so big. Today I visited the The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and American Museum of Natural History. There was just way too much to see. You could easily spend a whole day or more in each museum and still not see everything.
This morning I ran about 3 miles at marathon pace to keep the legs limber. Felt okay. The weather for marathon day is shaping up to be ideal conditions (40 – 56 degrees and sunny) assuming the wind is tame.
Here are some photos from today.

Fred Lebow, the founder of the New York City Marathon. There is also a documentary about him called "Run for Your Life" that I highly recommend.

Stopped by the Natural History Museum for about an hour. I was getting tired, so quickly walked through so I'm sure I missed a lot.
Good luck Sunday!!!My son Sam is a long distance runner, still in high school so generally runs 5Ks in x-c season and 1 mile in track season. He will run in his first half marathon when you are doing your big one on Sunday. Check out my blog entry http://acustomtripplanning.com/2011/10/04/how-to-fitting-in-a-personal-activity-on-a-vacation/
to see him running on the track at Oxford!
Thank you for the comment! Enjoyed reading your blog post, what us runners will do to get a run in 🙂