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Daniel W. Belsky, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues examined the association between genome-wide loci linked to smoking quantity phenotypes (as defined by a genetic risk score) and smoking behaviors in 1,037 men and women who were assessed for smoking behaviors eight times from 11 to 38 years of age.
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"I've had customers come up and thank me," he said. "The first day we set up the fruit, I got a phone call from a customer who said, 'Normally, I've got my kids tugging on me in the checkout for a candy bar, but today, on the way home, they're eating a banana. I think that's so cool.'"
It's not just people with kids, he said. "I've had adults point at the fruit and say thank you," he said.
The stores also replaced movie magazines in those lanes with coloring books and toys that cause kids to exercise. "We've sold a ton of jump ropes," Ohse said, "and I'm sold out of punching bags."
Both chains put toys that encourage exercise on dangling clips in the cereal and toy aisles. "We used to have stuff like tattoos," Foodland's Worst said, "but paddle balls sell just as well."
"These stores demonstrate that customers do want these items," the CDC's Payne said, "and [the managers] can prove with sales data that these products do move. So maybe it's something Walmart will eventually get behind on a national scale."
The local Health Department's Change the Future West Virginia program is part of a $4.5 million CDC grant aimed at promoting activities that help residents avoid obesity, which leads to chronic diseases like diabetes.
"Healthy checkouts are part of that," Wentz-Berner said. "We wanted to prove they could work here."
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"We're selling between 40 to 60 pounds of bananas a day in these racks," Foodland's Worst said. "We put a rack of onions and peppers next to the meat, to give people the idea to make a roast, and they buy all the peppers we put out."
Will it spread? Walmart's Nagle said she hopes to open similar lanes in the other three West Virginia stores she oversees, in South Charleston, Ripley and Quincy Mall. "We are doing everything we can to do this right and make a blueprint," she said. "Beyond that, we don't know."
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Newbie from Phoenix ,AZ
Hi, I saw that I'm supposed to make an intro, so here it is.
I have a 1997 GMC Sierra C1500 V6 Auto regular cab.
04-22-2011, 11:40 PM #2Welcome to the G M T C !
2010 Z/71 Colorado C/C
Black 4X4 w/5.3L V8
2007 Winnebago Adventurer
w/8.1L Chevy & Allison 6spd.
Canyon Lake, Texas
04-23-2011, 12:40 AM #3Welcome to the club
1988 Chevy C-3500 2wd (no pic)
350 c.i. 5.7 L Stock Block, 4 Bolt Mains
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Holley 650, Flowtech Headers, Magnaflow exh.
Jet Trans 700R4, B&M Ratchet, 4:10 gears,
3" susp. lift kit "shadetree"
No rev limiter, No speed limiter lol
04-23-2011, 03:25 AM #4Welcome to the club....... Hope you join the V6 group too!!!!!
1998 K1500 Ext. Cab 4.3 5spd
Amsoil, CIA
2007 Harley Davidson Vrod
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04-23-2011, 07:56 AM #5Welcome to da party!
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04-23-2011, 09:26 AM #6Welcome to the club!
Bobby - North Carolina
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04-23-2011, 12:47 PM #7Welcome!!!
Mike (Denver, CO) - 2008 Sierra 1500 Z71 SLE 5.3L 4WD
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PERFORMANCE: DiableSport Predator Tuner; Custom Tuned by Diablew; Magnaflow Exhaust; AFE Cold Air Intake
ELECTRONICS: Kenwood DNX6180 Touchscreen; Subthump box w/10" Kicker; Driver Information Center (DIC); Rear View Camera
ACCESSORIES: Westin Brush/Grill Gaurd; Westin Nerf Bars; Truxedo Tonneau; 20% Tint; Tow Mirrors w/Heat & Signals
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Thanks to Michael, who doesn't take pictures of himself in the mirror for his Facebook profile.
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First of all, Vince Shlomi, the ShamWow guy, is 44 years old. In the infomercials he doesn't look a day over a very douchey 25. Secondly, a $1,000 hooker tried biting his tongue off during a sexual encounter at a South Beach hotel and Vince was forced to ShamPow her in the fa... / Continue →


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On a cold February morning in 2009, I noticed beautiful ice patterns had formed overnight inside our apartment's storm windows. Some looked like corners of snowflakes. Some looked like trees. Others looked like feathers. Naturally, I shot pictures of them. Later I put the photo set up on Flickr, tagged the images generously and gave them all a Creative Commons license meant to encourage their enjoyment and re-use. That license happened to be Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic.
The decision to use that license was not a highly considered one. It's a default I chose back when I started uploading photos in 2005. On the whole, this has worked very well. For example, as of today, I have more than 34,000 photos on Flickr, more than 130 of which appear in Wikimedia Commons, and most of those also show up in Wikipedia. If you go to the Wikipedia pages for Boreray Island, San Gorgonio Mountain, Sarah Lacy or dozens of other topics, you'll find them illustrated by photos of mine, through no additional effort of my own.
I see this as nature taking its course. I am as generous with my photos as trees are with leaves in autumn, and I wish to exercise the same level of control over how they are used. I create them for the commons. Alas, while Creative Commons does offer public domain tools (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain), Flickr doesn't leverage those. So instead I go with one that I hope will encourage re-use going forward, as well as credit back to myself—and to other creators, if any are involved.
Not that I mind making money. Over the years since I started posting on Flickr, about $400 has flowed my way, all in the form of voluntary payments for one use or another. Still, that's not my purpose in putting the pictures up there. My purpose is making them useful. To anybody.
In November 2009 one of those anybodies turned out to be Mark Levy, VP and Creative Director for NBC Sports, writing to say the network would like to use some of my winter ice images in graphic backgrounds for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Since text already would be running over those backgrounds, he asked permission to waive the license details and handle attribution by listing me in the credits as a member of NBC's design team. I said that was fine and didn't give it more thought until the Olympics started running. To my surprise, my ice photos served as framing elements for all kinds of stuff: talking heads in studios, features about athletes, titles of events and settings, and text running below the action on ski slopes and toboggan runs. It was not only fun to watch, but also to feel a sense of participation in a good cause that transcended the commercial interests involved. In other words, I felt honored, not exploited.
Some concern was raised, however, close to home—at Harvard's Berkman Center, where I have been a fellow for the last several years. Creative Commons was born at Berkman, when Lawrence Lessig was there around the turn of the millennium. One of the other fellows at Berkman, Herkko Hietanen (who wrote his doctoral thesis on Creative Commons) saw a potentially interesting problem with NBC's use of the photos. In his blog at MIT's Communications Futures Program, Herkko wrote, "...there is a legal side to the story that could have wreaked havoc. What NBC's designers may have missed was that the license Doc Searls used did not only require credit but also that the adaptations made from Searls' photos share the same license terms." Later he added, "The exact amount of the material that would be affected with the ShareAlike term is unclear....To make the matter even more complicated, NBC does not own and can't license out many of the copyrightable elements that are shown on the screen next to the background graphics. There is no doubt that NBC never wanted its crown jewels, the Olympics, to fall to any royalty-free licensing scheme." Herkko also noted that NBC and I were both satisfied with our agreement and added this response from Creative Commons VP Mike Linksvayer: "NBC's extensive use of Searls' photos, and Searls' happiness for that use, demonstrates the power of Creative Commons licenses as a means to signal openness to collaboration, even if the resulting collaboration does not occur under the terms of the license originally offered."
But that didn't sit well with everybody either. On my blog, one commenter wrote, "Wow. Nice of you to give a corporation something worth a few thousand dollars for free, without even having them abide by the share-alike clause of copyleft!"
I still don't know what I should have done differently here. I believe in cultivating a culture of sharing, mixing and remixing. I also want to help Creative Commons push forward its pioneering work in copyright and reform. To be safe for now, I'm moving my photos on Flickr to a simple attribution license. But I'm also open to suggestions—for all of us.
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When Kenneth Ratliff came to Brevard County three years ago to work for Harris, he became a member of Melbourne-based Space Coast Credit Union. In particular, he was interested in trying its online credit union service.
While he admits, at first, there were some bugs to work out, system redesigns quickly had him going online for everything from checking his savings and checking accounts to recently refinancing his car.
"It's just really convenient," said Ratliff, 26, a software engineer. "I can check my statements anywhere, anytime. I don't have to wait for the mail. If I want to see if something cleared, I can check it instantly."
True, with his refinancing -- going from 8 percent to 5.5 percent for his 2002 Toyota Celica -- he had to sign to papers in person to finalize the deal. But, even then, "everything was ready for me when I got there. I went over on a break from work. It took me 15 minutes."
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Experts say it is a window into tomorrow, but admit you always will have to go the bank for some things, like closing deals and getting signatures.
In 2003, Bank of America was the first bank to cross the 7 million online banker subscriber after starting the year with 4.7 million, a jump of 49 percent. Those who pay bills online with Bank of America also rose in 2003, from 1.8 million to 3 million, up 67 percent.
Space Coast Credit Union is no stranger to this phenomenon. It made online operations available in 2000.
Last year, the credit union hit 1 million transactions happening online and it is expecting to hit 1.8 million this year. Already, 30 percent of members bank online, said Thea DeDyne, senior vice president of operations for Space Coast Credit Union.
"Our online operations are up significantly," she said. "People overall are getting more comfortable with going online and members like self service. With things like direct deposit and online bill paying, you don't have to purchase checks or buy stamps."
Sanjay Gupta, e-commerce executive at Bank of America, said there are several reasons for the rapid growth: Customers are becoming more comfortable handling their finances online; they're telling others how easy it is; and they're appreciating the perks of instant financial information.
"During the year, we've seen how customers who don't consider themselves very 'tech-savvy' have become comfortable with online banking," Gupta said. "We expect that trend to continue, as customers find that they can do more of their banking online, 24 hours a day."
He added that, in the near future, people would make their house payments online and even pay their water, electric and other household bills online as well.
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Current online-banking practices are certainly a "glimpse into the future," said John McCune, manager of banking research for SNL Financial, a banking-research firm based in Charlottesville, Va.
"If you look at where things are going, the Internet presence of banks will really start pulling people in," he said. "People are realizing they have to take advantage of the Internet and what I can do. Not every bank's Web site can do all that good stuff" and the ones that do will attract more customers.
McCune said one operation, Netbank, has a "purely Internet presence," but added that making sure brick-and-mortar banks have a good Web-based business model is part of a larger trend of capitalizing on customer service to draw more consumers in a fiercely competitive industry.
That competition is expected to get more intense with the economy improving and stock market rebounding, he said.
On one end, banks will benefit if consumers get more money to spend or get jobs, which, in turn, could lead to more overall savings and checking accounts and loans.
But banks could take a hit when consumers shift their money from the low rates in certificates of deposits and money-market accounts to the possible higher returns, and increased risks, of the stock market.
"For banks to maintain their capital and deposit levels, they are going to have to have new customers coming in to make up for the deposits lost," McCune said. "So you might see even more consumer-friendly approaches as competition heats up."
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Being able to go online has helped Jeni Williams stay a member of Space Coast Credit Union -- even when she moved to a county with no local branches. The resident of Hawthorne, which is near Gainesville, said she has been going online to check her savings, checking and auto loan accounts for nearly three years.
"When I first went online banking, I was scared of it," she said, adding that she forced herself to try it after moving to Hawthorne from Bunnell, in Flagler County. "But the credit union made it so easy. It's a breeze."
That is high praise, Williams said, coming from a self-proclaimed "ditz when operating a computer. I know I am smart, but when it comes to electronics, I am at a total loss. Online banking at the credit union is computer-illiterate friendly."
Williams said she deal with three local banks, but has "no intention of taking my . . . accounts away from Space Coast Credit Union. Their service is incomparable. I have been dealing with banks for 32 years and they are the only one I have stuck to faithfully."
At SunTrust, the online-banking portals "have more business every month than the month before," said Larry Stewart, executive vice president for retail banking for SunTrust's 11 Central Florida counties, including Brevard.
"We have a robust Internet presence," he said. "Customers are saying they want convenience. They want to bank on their own terms."
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That mantra is also true for local businesses.
"Compared with two years ago, we have tripled our online banking," said Travis Proctor, president of Melbourne-based Artemis International Technologies Inc., which specializes ininformation-technology outsourcing and virtual-technology support.
It takes care of computers, phones, Web sites and online services for companies in construction, retail, the military and title agencies. "We have been doing it for a couple of years and primary reason is immediate access to information," he said. "It also allows us to automatically bring in numbers to reconcile with our accounting software."
Overall, it makes doing payroll for employees, sending payments to other companies and receiving electronic payments "more efficient," Proctor said. "The majority of our accounts are paid online. We don't have to cut a check, mail it and sign it."
Still, many of the daily transactions and general bill payments are still done on paper, but Proctor is hopes that will change.
"Absolutely I think more bills will be paid online in the future," he said. "Because of the efficiency and ease it will continue to grow."
No stranger to e-commerce, local entrepreneur David Tom of Tom's Enterprises, has been banking online since 2001. Tom specializes in buying items in demand -- like a Sony PlayStation 2 for instance -- online and then selling them to local buyers.
"Part of it was just the ease," he said, adding that he appreciates being able to quickly check his savings and checking accounts. "I could pay my bills all at once without having to write out six or seven different checks. It can be advantageous and make business more secure."
Online banking
At Space Coast Credit Union, there is a lot you can do online. Here are some examples of what you can and can't do.
Can do:
- Check accounts: Savings, checking, certificate of deposit, money markets and mortgages.
- Balance transfers: Between current accounts.
- Apply for consumer loans: Including loans for home and cars.
- Tax forms: View yearly tax forms that credit unions sends out.
- Checks: View cleared checks or order new checks.
- Bill pay: Pay bills at a certain time each month.
- Second savings account: Open up a second savings account and give it a nickname, like the skateboard or Christmas account.
Things you can't do:
- Become a new member: Potential members need to show up at a branch in person for signatures and to verify identity.
- Close a home or car loan: For finalizing loans, documents have to be signed in person to close the deal.
The information on this page is for educational purposes only. SCCU is not engaged in providing estate planning or other advice. Please consult with a competent estate planning professional regarding any specific estate planning questions.


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Just a reminder - today's the deadline to change your transportation and baggage options.
I actually decided to change to "baggage" at the last minute. I may change it back again by the end of the day.
Looks like we're all holding up pretty well...
YMMV, Congrats on the 1 miler!
D_R, See you in the dailies.
TakeAHike, I think we're on the same schedule so I may start log stalking you. Good job hitting your pace ranges. I finally was able to hit mine during my medium run yesterday. It's makes me think I'll be in good shape once the heat and humidity leaves town.
Meaghan, Good luck with your race!
Lagwagon, Hope the calf feels better.
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I decided upon no baggage and I think I can handle it, but thanks for the reminder!
That is assuming my husband is there with me. But if he is not going, I'm not going either, so we better both go!
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Next: San Francisco Marathon
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Boston Strong in 2014!
Thanks for the reminder. I think I will stick with no baggage. I am tempted by one of those orange ponchos and I am hoping that my DH can bring me extra clothes. I wish I knew what security was going to be like. If they don't allow backpacks or bag anywhere near the finish it would be useful to know. On the other hand, they can't really control access to all of Central Park West, can they?
2014 goals:
2620 miles; 5k < 24:30; HM < 1:54; Marathon < 4:00; Century Bike Ride
NYC Half Marathon 3/16; Boston Marathon 4/21
Week 5 is in the books. Total mileage was 80. I'm still feeling pretty good and, since the weather has been unseasonably cool where I am, I was able to run some pretty fast miles. Yesterday, I had 18 miles w/10 at MP. When I started out, I didn't feel all that great and had some doubts about pulling off 18 miles let alone 10 at MP. Had a good 6 as warmup and then started the MP segment. I didn't look at my Garmin for most of the MP segment and just ran by effort. I finally checked it after 6 miles and was surprised to see 8:16. I was able to pick up the pace and finished with 8:08 pace. Still way off from where I ultimately want to be but a 25 sec/mile improvement over my last MP workout. Next week is a cutback week and then things get serious - three 80 mile weeks in a row.
Great job, Julia!
I finished the week super strong with an 18 miler with the last 9 @ MP + 10% but it ended up being a progressive from that to MP and it felt super easy.
Barring no miles with hubby tonight, I ran 57 miles this week.
59.7 mile week for me, but I may still go out for 5 easy miles with DW later on today.
I ran my first XC 8K this morning in 38:27. I'm not used to racing on trails, wet grass, and gravel.
I kept up my regular Tuesday 4 mile tempo run (14 in a row so far)
Instead of doing a mid-week (wednesday) medium run, I have slipped into running my usual 7 mile easy run course followed by 3 or so miles at marathon pace. I don't check my pace on these (nor on my tempo runs) and I find I'm doing the MP add-on a little faster than planned.
I also have been adding some MP miles into my Saturday run.
So far, so good, but I find it hard to think about the race.
nice job everyone. a combination of the cooler weather in most places, and some adaptations from the last few weeks seems to be helping move us all in the right direction!
I hit 65mi this week, also my first week at average sub 8 min pace since the winter. Week started a little rough, as i ran my tempo on Tues (with a new group, which was cool) and came up 20-30 sec slower than goal, but it was pretty humid and I was a little tired going in.
Week improved substantially though as the 18 mile MP run yesterday went great, with 10 miles @ MP averaging sub 6:50. Feeling it today, but it was a tough run on a hard week, so alls good!
As the MP runs can be tough, I'm thinking maybe working the next 2 (12 mi and 14 mi) into HMs: Run the Reservoir (Oradell NJ, Sep 1) and Newport Liberty (Jersey City, 9/22). Anyone else doing the same/similar?
Week 5 of 18 is done. My tempo run last week was lousy, but otherwise everything went well. I was undisciplined during my MP on Saturday, but I feel good about the results. We went to a B&B in the Catskills and I had to map out a route in unfamiliar, hilly territory. The RA mapping tool said my route had 1,000 feel of uphill (and 1,000 feet of downhill) and that the worst hills were towards the end. I was supposed to run 16 miles, with the last 10 @ MP and I planned to get the faster miles out of the way before hitting those final hills. I still don't know what my MP is, but I decided to aim for 7:55 after failing miserably at 7:30 last time. The weather was cool and I was feeling good. I finished mile 3 in 7:43 and decided to just go with it. My pace varied as I cruised up and down rolling hills, but I never let up. In the end, I completed 16 hilly miles at an average pace of 7:59. It was a significant effort, but I felt OK afterwards and recovered well. I did not do the workout the way Pftiz drew it up, but I have no regrets. I feel fine now and have a cutback week coming up. I ended the week with 47 miles.
Julia - We might be on the same general schedule, but you are doing a much harder version of it. Feel free to stalk me. I have been stalking you for several weeks now. I thought that is what people do around here . Nice job with your 18-miler. Enjoy the cutback week. Though I am sure your cutback week is more than my longest week.
D_R - Nice mileage and LR.
YMMV - That XC race sounds like fun, but I can't really tell if you liked it or not. I like to do a trail race or two every year, but I am more comfortable racing on roads.
Lagwagon - That was a solid MP run. Nice job. I plan to do a bunch of local races for tune-ups and MP runs. So far, my "race" schedule looks like this.
Week 7 - NYRR 18-miler in Central Park - 20 mile normal LR for me
Week 6 - Newport Liberty HM - Tune-up race at full race effort
Week 5 - Yonkers HM - 18 miles with 14 at MP
Week 4 - ?? - Visiting family in PA - Maybe a 5k in Lansdale, PA
Week 2 - 10k in Paramus, NJ - Tune-up race at full race effort
2013 goals: 800m: 2:20 | mile: 4:59 | 5k: 18:59 | 10k: 39:59 | HM: 1:32 | Marathon: 3:20
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Question to those of you on Pfitz or other structured training plans: how are you working in hills?
I keep hearing how tough NY can be with the bridges and park hills...so I want to find a way to bake more into my running, especially the up-tempo and MP stuff. will you move some of your tempos/MP runs onto hilly routes, or actually build in hill repeats somewhere? if the latter, on what days / in place of what workouts?
PS takeahike...nice race list, thanks for sharing, maybe I'll see you at newport.
Question to those of you on Pfitz or other structured training plans: how are you working in hills? I keep hearing how tough NY can be with the bridges and park hills...so I want to find a way to bake more into my running, especially the up-tempo and MP stuff. will you move some of your tempos/MP runs onto hilly routes, or actually build in hill repeats somewhere? if the latter, on what days / in place of what workouts?
I am following a Running Wizard plan that builds in 4 weeks of hill work (2 hill work-outs per week) so this is not an issue for me. When I ran NY in 2011 I was not following a structured plan but thought I was ready for any hills on the route because I live in a somewhat hilly neighborhood and all of my runs include some hills. I was wrong.
This was my experience with the hills for what it's worth. I did not have problems with the bridges. Partly because I was expecting these to be a little challenging and there were no surprises. Also they are clear up and down inclines preceded by and followed by flat road. What you see is what you get. What I found most difficult was the last 5 miles. This is a hard part of the race under any conditions, but I found the hills at that point more difficult because I was not prepared for them mentally. When I hit 5th Avenue I was thinking that I would just cruise for a while until I hit the hills in Central Park. What I did not realize was that 5th Ave was a long slow incline for about 2 miles. I lived in Manhattan for 6 years and still live in the area so I have walked those miles many times and would have sworn that the terrain was flat. Nope. Although not steep, the long gradual inclines were harder than I was expecting. And then you hit the hills in Central Park. They are not particularly steep, but there are several of them. At that point in the race, I felt like they went on forever.
So my suggestion would be to make sure that you incorporate hills into your training in some form. I'd also suggest that you try attacking some hills at the end of your long runs to get some experience running hills on tired legs. And just know that the second half of the route is more challenging than the first so prepare yourself mentally for what you will encounter.
Here is an interesting article on how to plan your race:
I live in Florida and I don't have hills to train, so I don't do any (or very few bridges). When I ran the NYCM in 2011 I had no hill training whatsoever and I didn't find the course very hilly. Yes, it has bridges but it is not a tough course, IMO. And that comes from one that does no hill training and lives in 0 elevation.
Question to those of you on Pfitz or other structured training plans: how are you working in hills? I keep hearing how tough NY can be with the bridges and park hills...so I want to find a way to bake more into my running, especially the up-tempo and MP stuff. will you move some of your tempos/MP runs onto hilly routes, or actually build in hill repeats somewhere? if the latter, on what days / in place of what workouts? PS takeahike...nice race list, thanks for sharing, maybe I'll see you at newport.
The only real problem I had during my first NYCM was the incline up 5th ave on the way to Central Park... It's around mile 22-23 and it's tough to face psychologically (I think especially so since it doesn't really look like an incline... It just seems like you're getting slower for no reason). Other than that I didn't find the course hard. A lot of people were walking over the Queensboro bridge but I didn't think it was especially tough, and I didn't do any specific hill training (though I was living in Queens at the time, and running the bridge nearly daily as part of my normal route)
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The Queensboro bridge gave me an asthma attack that year, so I might have been one of the walkers of it, ha.
I didn't think those last 3 miles were bad but they ARE uphill. I just had a bad issue between Miles 20 and 23 due to the asthma attack but by Mile 23, I had enough energy to run the last 3 like a crazy woman. YMMV.
I've heard the same thing - that the bridges are kind of like hills and I should train for them. But, I've been told from other people that they didn't even notice the incline on the bridges. I'll have to look at the course again, but from last year, I recall feeling like the Queensboro was the worst of it so I did a couple of runs that started with a long climb at the beginning... I really don't like hills but there's a section of our local multi-use trail that is rolling for about 3 miles so I've been including it in my medium and long runs. It's also the only trail with a water fountain, so, that's another selling point in the summer. I also live at the crest of my neighborhood, so almost all of my runs end with a 1.5 mile climb. But, that's pretty much all I plan on doing as far as hill work.
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