A trail race organized by the Van Cortlandt Track Club in the Bronx. I started alongside about 200 runners on one of the fields next to the Hare and the Tortoise. I immediately got into the groove and focused my attention exclusively on the breath, the path and the feet of other runners in front of me. The footing was quite challenging for a running race and one had to look closely for little orange flags that marked the path. I was used to looking for orange things in the forest and running on rocks, so these conditions gave me a bit of an advantage over other runners, I think. Nonetheless, I was a bit slower than in the Storm King 10K on August 23 of 2014 (by about 7 seconds per mile). Placement results were a bit better
overall than in the
Storm King race and a bit worse in my
category, 5 minutes and 10 seconds behind the overall winner.