Free topic today…

but recently I convinced a friend to run a 10k race around Governor’s Island (NYC) with me.

Why?

I said because I usually run NYC races three times and I’ve only run this 10k race twice.  A stupid reason, right?

In 2024 and 2025

The 2025 one actually took place in September (but it was the same course.)

Coincidentally or Karma, on the same day as Heidi and I decided to run this race, NYCRuns advertised a brand new marathon which will be 9 loops of this island:

Here are my NYC threes:

• I ran the NYC Marathon in 2019, 2023, 2024

• and the NYC Half Marathon in 2019, 2024, 2026

• and the Brooklyn Half Marathon in 2018, 2023, 2024

So why THREE times?

• The first time, the race is new, exciting and you are facing the unknown so you have no big goal.
• The second time, you are familiar with the course and logistics and you hope for a course PR.
• Since #2 rarely happens (at least for me), the third time, you run it purely for fun and you enjoy the race.

So I am planning on a great weekend for the Governor’s Island 10k.

Does that mean I should run Fred Lebow Half Marathon one more time in January? I ran it in 2020 and 2022.

or the NYC Mini 10k?  I ran that race in 2025 and 2026.

Happy Running! Do you run races more than once? Why? Please share.

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and tomorrow:

I’m also linking up with: co-hosts Coach Debbie Runs, Confessions of a Mother Runner, Mile by Mile, and Runs with Pugs