In short, going to George Washington Bridge is a good way to have a nice scenery view of Manhattan.
So, 8 people gathered together this morning: Marga and Maxy, Roberto Sanchez, Iustin Pop, Tim Retout, Gaudenz Steilin, Noèl Köthe and /me. I screwed up slightly by trying to go down to the Hudson Greenway immediately from Riverside Av. while it is not possible until 130th St. or so....so we ended up doing more ups and downs in the beginning, including going through a wild path that was leading nowhere. Apologies to fellow runners for this. On the route to there, we unfortunately saw Marga and Maxy being forced to wave us bye after a few kms, mostly because of this hard start. Sorry, guys...and I hope you had fun anyway, as well as some nice views of Hudson River. The remaining 6 of us then went along the Greenway north to GWB. Thankfully, Noèl already went there and he could sort out the tricky labyrinth of streets to climb up to the bridge and then enter the walway along the road. Though quite noisy because of those damn cars, the view from the bridge is quite awesome as one can see the entire Western part of Manhattan up to the southmost part. IMHO, that view is probably great at night. Can be a good place to go on evenings after sunset by going north in train 1 up to 175th St then walk 1 mile or 2 west through 177th St.. We crossed the bridge then....went back..:-) We apparently all managed to come back safe from this trip to Wild Northern Manhattan and ended up having run something like 17km, according to Noèl's Garmin (mine was driving me crazy by contantly rebooting and didn't record anything...crap). Tomorrow's run is likely to feature a visit to Central Park, again. Slow pace and shorter distance will be the rule. Reaching the Reservoir will be the goal, to enjoy the great NYC scenery from there... PS: Noèl and I might have crazy ideas for the Day Trip. Going to Coney Island by running seems to be a *too crazy* idea (the distance is over 20 miles)....but goign down Manhattant to Brooklyn Bridge, cross it over and then catch a train there should be feasible.:) _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
