47th Street Loop/Levy Loop

It was almost balmy this morning, felt damp like the inland streets of a beach town, 65 degrees with a breeze and a mist to start. I hoped to run the 47th Street Loop easily, and did. Without looking at my watch (an act which requires I resist 35 years of conditioning), I ran the loop in 30:43 and, as hoped, it seemed I could have continued for hours. My splits were 10:30, 10:08 and 10:05. Sixty seconds after I stopped, my pulse was 104. Oh. These light-weight, firm, Asics DS Trainers, that I like as much as the other shoes I've run well in [Puma 9190 and Lydiard Flats (1970s), Brooks Hugger and Nike Pegasus (1980s), Ascis 825 (1990s-00s), and Asics Gel-1110 (2005-07)], get terrible gription on wet roads. Other than that, I love them, and recognize them as the next shoe I will mourn and struggle without when they're discontinued.

I walked the Levy Loop this afternoon, under a brilliant, bone-dry blue sky, in 28:52.