New York City Marathon

Well, this is it- the last leg of my travels. I arrived in New York after a marathon 13 and a half hour flight from Sydney to LA, then spent about 2 hours in queues just to get through customs to get onto my flight to New York. Luckily the flight was ...

... - a jobsworth with a power trip! We collapsed on the seats and proceeded to sleep for 8 hours where we woke up in New York City!!! I had always had visions of getting off the train at Grand Central station and walking through the lobby that was made ...

... included me in his trip out to Rocklin County with a few friends. Crossing paths with three trail races: a marathon, a 50K and a 50 miler;  good to see that New Yorkers are just as hard core as us in Cali, we proceeded to ride 45 miles in Harriman ...

... we noticed a huge crowd gathered at the bottom of the bridge.  Half way down we heard a bagpiper piping the runners in a marathon across the bridge.  We sidled down the side of the bridge as streams of people ran past in the other direction - ...

... I arrived in Boston & it was packed as it was the Marathon, some people in my room in the hostel were running the Marathon, someone in Boston actually asked if I was running, I just found that the funniest thing anyone had ever said to me!!! The ...

... Soho and Tribeca.  We tried out DeNiro's Tribeca Grill - v good and at this time of year full of people sporting their marathon medals...bless! The restaurant walls are crammed with signed De Niro film posters for his chef partner.... Taxi Driver, Heat, ...

... Vitsoe shop on Bond Street which was great fun! I then I met up with Jess (old Tredegar Road flat mate) for a proper American burger and fries. New York is super cool I have to say, and I will miss my friends there very much! Thanks for putting me up ;) ...

... of the night. We got to bed about 3.... But there is no rest during vacation so we were up and out by 8:30 . The marathon has made John a better traveling partner he is walking a little bit slower. We headed up to Central Park and had breakfast at Le ...

... We then drove on to Philadelphia where we saw the Philly's home ground and the Town Hall and Liberty Bell before heading into New York City. When we got to New York we went for one last Contiki dinner before saying farewell to the group.  We then ...

... wind) at the top for a while, I headed back down and continued following my nose and feet.   New York is a great walking city, and I checked out Madison Square Garden, the Rockefeller Centre, Carnegie Hall and various Broadway theatres (all too ...