May 22, 2012
As many of you may know by now, I completed Hudson River Run 2012 on Sunday afternoon, May 20th, in New York City’s Battery Park. As I recover from the run, I am working on my detail notes and will surely be posting entries about each running day in the near future. But to start you off (and perhaps whet your appetite for my future entries), here are some basic statistics from the run:
Total Miles Covered: 318.6
Average mileage per day: 35.4
Total Time Running: 78 hrs, 18 mins, 14 secs
Avg pace: 14:45/mile
Number of steps taken: 550,000
Pairs of shoes used: 3 (in rotation)
Times we actually crossed the Hudson River: 5
Number of times I fell: 1
Total Calories burned: approximately 32,000
Ounces of fluids taken in while running: about 1000 (8 gallons)
Number of beers I drank: 15 (but only 1 while actually running)
Number of times I wanted to quit: at least 3
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Total number of unique crew members: 10
Day One (1) – Catherine Petroski
Day Two (0) – Catherine Petroski (redux)
Day Three (2) – Catherine Petroski (redux), Gail & Marty Ewald
Day Four (0) – Gail & Marty Ewald (redux)
Day Five (2) – Jeff Andrews, Richard D’Ambrosio
Day Six (2) – Michael Oliva, Deanna Culbreath
Day Seven (0) – Richard D’Ambrosio (redux)
Day Eight (2) – Zoe Correa, Charlie Bennett
Day Nine (1) – Tammy Goedken
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Total number of unique guest runners (some ran more than once): 60
Day One (3) – Federico Moretto, Tim Kase, Laurie Schweighardt
Day Two (5) – Eric Nilsestuen, Rachel Kimber, Sherry Fraser, Catherine Petroski, Eddie Munoz
Day Four (6) – Randy Goldberg, Kathleen Goldberg, Jim Williams, Patrick Lynskey, Chris Nowak, Chris Varley
Day Five (7) – Chris Nowak (redux), Kim Law, Roxanne Gillen, David Newman, Mary Signorelli, Pat Sorsby, Ed Gillen, Josh Merlis
Day Six (2) – Michael Oliva, Deanna Culbreath
Day Seven (10)– Tom O’Dowd, Frank Colella, Emmy Stocker, Tony Portera, Harry Owens, Roger D’Aquino, Joe DeFlora, Jeff Lease, Conor Jennings, Marie DuSault
Day Eight (9)– Joe Marchesano, Bill Braine, Tara Pipia, Zoe Correa, LTC Scott Chancellor, cadet Keith Buell, cadet Colin Chapman, cadet David Richardson, Charlie Bennett
Day Nine (18) – Tony Portera (redux), Mat Gerowitz, Micah Hoernig, Jonathan Stenger, Kevin Myers, Adam Gerber, Jose Fernandez, Catherine Petroski (redux), Ira Bellach, Karen Braswell, Hideki Kinoshita, Frank Colella (redux), Emmy Stocker (redux), Claudia Osmar, Tennessee Watson, David Halloran, Nancy Oh, Steven ‘Thunder’ Lee, Junko Iwazaki, Tiger Ellen, Steve Lastoe
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Towns and Cities we ran through: 48
- Newcomb
- North River
- North Creek
- Riparius
- Thurman
- Hadley
- Corinth
- Glens Falls
- Northumberland
- Schuylerville
- Stillwater
- Mechanicville
- Waterford
- Cohoes
- Watervliet
- Albany
- Glenmont
- Coeymans
- West Coxsackie
- Coxsackie
- Athens
- Catskill
- Malden
- Saugerties
- Kingston
- Port Ewen
- Highland
- Milton
- Marlboro
- Newburgh
- New Windsor
- Cornwall-on-Hudson
- Highland Falls
- Fort Montgomery
- Tomkins Cove
- Stony Point
- West Haverstraw
- Haverstraw
- Upper Nyack
- Nyack
- Grandview-on-Hudson
- Piermont
- Palisades, NJ
- Alpine, NJ
- Tenafly, NJ
- Englewood Cliffs, NJ
- Ft Lee, NJ
- New York City
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I am extremely sorry that I was unaware of you running thru Tenafly, New Jersey. I would have welcomed you and run a distance with you.
Peter Rustin
Clarkson class of 1969
Mayor, Borough of Tenafly
email: rstnpet@aol.com
That is AMAZINGLY awesome – congratulations!
Thanks, Laura.
Nowhere near as awesome as your 50-states feat, but I had fun, and we raised a pretty good amount of money for the charity, so I’m very happy about it.
Hope to actually meet you in person soon. It seems we have a few dozen common friends in New York and Albany, yet our paths have yet to cross.
Keep doing great things, and thanks again !