Saturday, September 21, 2013

Prospect Park on a Sunny Run-Day

I've officially switched to MapMyRun from gmaps-pedometer. I can actually embed my running routes on here now!

It was a beautiful day for an easy Prospect Park run, my standard 7 mile loop that I save for leisurely weekends when the traffic going up Park Slope is less of an issue.
James Stranahan believed that a park in Brooklyn, "Would become a favorite resort for all classes of our community, enabling thousands to enjoy pure air, with healthful exercise, at all seasons of the year..."

Prospect Park is Brooklyn's better-than-Central-Park.  Seriously, Fredrick Law-Olmstead developed it over 30 years, fixing all the mistakes he made in Manhattan's major park.  It's a pain when there's traffic rolling through on weekdays- or when people see fit to run or bike in reverse- putting everyone in peril- but it makes a sunny day feel so much sunnier.

As long as the water fountains stay on a few more months, I'll keep up my Prospect Park weekend loop.

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