These are the toughest days for training. When you are not focused on a specific race or time but you need to get your weekly miles in. What makes it even harder is when you need to wake up early to get your run in. This is when you are on Dawn Patrol.

In the old days this is when I would put my head down to sleep, not wake up and run. I guess this is what they call the maturation process, but I am still not happy about it.

The only saving grace here is the atmosphere on my run. There is nothing like Manhattan at 6:30am, sun is first coming up, streets are dead quiet, save for the deliverymen, runners and the ghosts of the Dukes of Flatbush coming home after a night out.

The views are not too bad either