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Photo Gallery - 2003 New York City Avon Walk for Breast Cancer |
After Riverside Park, our route went up to Riverside Drive. We had Quick Stops and Rest Stops every 2 miles or so. I kept drinking water and Gatorade.
We enjoyed a shady walk along Riverside Drive past the Upper West Side. It was truly wonderful walking. I used my "Survivor" show Buff as a sweatband. Lunch was at Riverbank State Park - a delicious Sonoran Chicken Wrap. I used my Buff to create an ice pack and iced my knee and then my gluteal muscles as my iliotibial band syndrome requires. I was faithful to stretching every hour to try to keep it from hurting.
Back on the trail, we walked on beautiful wooded paths through Fort Washington Park, here with a view of the George Washington Bridge.
Inwood Hill Park - 13.1 miles - the end of the half-marathon route. Because of my iliotibial band syndrome, I hadn't known whether I would make it even that far. But the pain came and went during the walk and didn't stay constant. My pedometer had registered over a mile before I even began the walk - and a lot of standing around between 4 am and 7 am, never easy on the body. I felt wonderful to have made it so far. I was happy to see instant cold packs, and used two of them to ice my knee and glutes. Then I boarded a bus to the Wellness Village, loaded by Lily who had been the route master for the Portland Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and who I got to know well back in July.
The marathon walkers continued over the Henry Hudson Bride to the Bronx and Van Cortland Park, then back over the Broadway Bridge and south through Inwood, Washington Heights, Morningside Heights, and Harlem down to the footbridge to Ward's Island Park.
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