This weekend we headed to New York City for a visit to SUNY-Purchase with my youngest son who is a high school senior to be followed by a visit with our oldest who is now a sophomore at Columbia. We generally stay north of the city when visiting NYC and because most of the snow in the metropolitan New York area has melted we headed over to the Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Sleepy Hollow which has more than 20 miles of groomed running trails. This is one of the Columbia cross country team's prime training grounds each Fall. The Preserve land is primarily comprised of the Rockefeller family estate donated to the State of New York and has a system of carriage roads built by John D. Rockefeller Sr. and John D. Rockefeller Jr. The Park overlooks the Hudson and Tappen Zee Bridge and one of the trails passes over the first triple arch bridge in America. We ran easy for about 65 minutes and it was our first non-paved trail running since the Nationals in Richmond Virginia last December. There were a few muddy spots but I'm not complaining as I guess we're a good month away from running in Mine Falls. Last summer we ran the same Sleepy Hollow trails in stifling heat so today’s 40 degrees was perfect. Tomorrow we head to Central Park for the (dreaded) weekly long run.
This weekend we headed to New York City for a visit to SUNY-Purchase with my youngest son who is a high school senior to be followed by a visit with our oldest who is now a sophomore at Columbia. We generally stay north of the city when visiting NYC and because most of the snow in the metropolitan New York area has melted we headed over to the Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Sleepy Hollow which has more than 20 miles of groomed running trails. This is one of the Columbia cross country team's prime training grounds each Fall. The Preserve land is primarily comprised of the Rockefeller family estate donated to the State of New York and has a system of carriage roads built by John D. Rockefeller Sr. and John D. Rockefeller Jr. The Park overlooks the Hudson and Tappen Zee Bridge and one of the trails passes over the first triple arch bridge in America. We ran easy for about 65 minutes and it was our first non-paved trail running since the Nationals in Richmond Virginia last December. There were a few muddy spots but I'm not complaining as I guess we're a good month away from running in Mine Falls. Last summer we ran the same Sleepy Hollow trails in stifling heat so today’s 40 degrees was perfect. Tomorrow we head to Central Park for the (dreaded) weekly long run. 
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