4:30

I know I got an extra hour from "fall back," but I don't feel it.

12:00

I'm in Queens! My home for 22 years (and who knows, perhaps again).

5:30

It's still dark, and I'm out the door.
Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch.

12:15

On the Queensboro Bridge, and about to enter Manhattan.

6:00

On the subway to the Staten Island ferry. Things were a lot better when I could just take the bus from the library.

12:30

On First Avenue heading into Spanish Harlem.
This is where the training needs to kick in, or I'm toast.

7:00

Getting to the ferry.

12:45

The Willis Avenue Bridge, and "da Bronx," are in sight.

7:30

Finally on Staten Island, but not at the staging area – I still have a bus to take.

1:00

In the Bronx – or, if things go really, really well, heading back into Manhattan.

8:00

Finally at the staging area.

1:15

Slogging down Fifth Avenue.
As Edward G. Robinson might have said, "Where's your 'Happy Feet' now, eh?"

9:00

I'm probably chilly at this point, with over an hour to wait.

1:30

Central Park on the right – and the worst hill of them all, over 3/4 of a mile long up 5th Avenue.

10:10

And we're off.
The first wave left half an hour ago, but it could be worse – the third wave has another half hour to wait.

1:45

Somewhere in Central Park.
If it's a really good day I'm nearing the Plaza Hotel; otherwise I'm still farther north.

10:30

In Brooklyn, my current home.

2:00

Finished? Could be!

10:45

Fourth Avenue.
Something unusual; I'm on the west side of the street this time.

2:15

Stagging around, trying to remember how to walk without pain.

11:00

Still on Fourth Avenue, 'cause it's a long road.

2:30

Out of Central Park, and on the way to sit and eat ... and sit ... and eat and sit ... and sit some more.

11:15

Around the B'klyn Academy of Music (BAM).

7:00

Lying on my bed at home, wondering if I can get away with not getting up in the morning.

11:30

Clinton Hill (and the first non-bridge hill) is now a memory.

Monday

Back to work ... very slowly.

11:45

Another hill in Brooklyn ... and I'm still in Brooklyn!

Saturday

Marathon #25, the "Silver Season" begins today.