Did you ever think just how far 26.2 miles is? Last Friday, my training run to prepare for the NYC Marathon was my furthest to date. It was 7 miles. My wife was working in East Williston so I decided to run there to meet her. If you are familiar with our town I was trying to avoid hills so she dropped me off at Bar Beach on West Shore Road and away I went. When I arrived at our meeting spot in East Williston I discovered I had only run 5.5 miles. I still need to run another 1.5 miles! Wait, how could this be?!?!? I started in Port Washington, went through Roslyn, into East Williston and still hadn't reached the mileage I needed! I went through 3 towns! Doesn't that sound really, really far?!?! Well, to reiterate, it was not far at all, it was only 5.5 miles away!
In order for our readers to be able to understand just how far a marathon is I will tell you two destinations that are 26.2 miles away:
1. Leaving from my house in Port Washington, then going all the way to exit 11N on the Belt Parkway (the exit for the Kings Plaza Shopping Center on Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn) is 26.2 miles.
2. Leaving my house and going all the way to the Deer Park Shopping outlet, exit 51 on the Long Island Expressway is only 24.5 miles away. I would still need to run 1.7 miles before I could go shopping!
So, I leave you with this revelation.....26.2 miles is really far!
