As I’ve posted before, I like to drive in early to the City, then run, change clothes and go to work. This was easy before my knee surgeries, but now it requires more planning. I no longer can run on the streets and sidewalks of NYC and I have to find soft surfaces to run on. This week I was moved to a jobsight in Greenpoint, a very industrial part of Brooklyn. Finding a place to run on grass took some looking, but I found an awesome place to run with so many variable routes, I’ll never tire of it.
Calvery Cemetery in Queens!
Is this Runners Heaven or am I on the Road to Runners Hell?!
When I was working at Bucknell University I used to run through the cemetery behind campus (where baseball legend Christy Matthewson is buried)to get to the athletic fields and every time I went through one of my knees would hurt…not bad but sore enough to make me think about it. As soon as I exited the cemetery it would stop hurting. I think it was Christy telling me to stop running and work on my curve ball!
Sorry, I didn’t mean to insult your neighborhood. I’m working a Greenpoint sewage treatment plant and all I see are little factories and scrap yards. I come in off the Expressway so I don’t see much except the cemetery. I know that there is a neighborhood over there somewhere but I never get to it. The guys at work did point out the movie studio where they make the porno’s and the one where Biggie Smalls had the shootout.
As I’ve posted before, I like to drive in early to the City, then run, change clothes and go to work. This was easy before my knee surgeries, but now it requires more planning. I no longer can run on the streets and sidewalks of NYC and I have to find soft surfaces to run on. This week I was moved to a jobsight in Greenpoint, a very industrial part of Brooklyn. Finding a place to run on grass took some looking, but I found an awesome place to run with so many variable routes, I’ll never tire of it.
Calvery Cemetery in Queens!
Is this Runners Heaven or am I on the Road to Runners Hell?!
Grave running is cool. There is a huge cemetary in East Cleveland (some President is buried there, I forget who). We used to do hill repeats there all the time when I was in college.
Grave running is cool. There is a huge cemetary in East Cleveland (some President is buried there, I forget who). We used to do hill repeats there all the time when I was in college.
I don’t know why I know this…but I think it’s President James Garfield who’s burried in Cleveland.
Before I moved to a new city, once or twice a month I would train on my “death route”… It worked it’s way thru 2 cemetaries and past 2 funeral homes. Sometimes when I was especially fatigued, I’d ask (in my head of course, I’m not a total wack job) the spirits/souls to hop onboard and join me for one last run… Weird, but whatever it takes to get the job done…
