One of my friends had stumbled across my list of Boston Museums for Free when he first moved to Boston and hadn't realized it was mine. I was so pleased to think anyone actually read my post that I'm finally getting around to posting about NYC museums. Just a 4.5-hour bus ride away, NYC is one of my favorite places to visit. Here's a list of ways to get into various NYC attractions for free.

If you know of other ways and places to get in free, let me know and I'll add it to the list!

NATIONWIDE )
NYC Museums, Zoos, Aquariums, Gardens... )
Other free NYC Attractions )
For a couple of years now, B had been telling me of the Vertical Tour he had taken several years ago at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. Whenever we were down there, we kept missing the tours (only given on Saturdays at noon and 2pm, $15/person). But this time, we finally managed to go. We climbed 12 stories all the way up to where the arrow is pointing. (But just a little bit at a time so the climbing wasn't too strenuous)

When we were visiting NYC, one of our friends took us to the Lincoln Center to hang out after dinner. We wandered over to see if the band was still playing for Midsummer Night's Swing but that part was over. If you go, you don't have to buy tickets to enjoy the show. The tickets just give you access to the dance floor closest to the band. (and the bands and DJs play a bunch of styles of music, not just swing) But even though we had missed the music, there was still the grass roof and fountain to enjoy.

fitfool: (running by sea)
This past weekend I scanned through over 28,000 pictures in the Lost-n-Found section to see if I could find any more pictures of myself from the marathon (my race report in a previous post). I did pick up one more of myself and got to play detective and matched up about 3 dozen other unidentified runners (based on clues like partial bib #s, names on shirts, and country flags) and sent those in to Brightroom. Even if they don't buy the pictures, I figure they'll at least look at them and I got a little thrill every time I matched someone up to a bib #. Exciting to scan through those pictures. Lots of great handcycle pictures (their bib #s got blocked by the handcycle cranks) and I got to see a bunch of the costumed runners.

collage of NYCM pictures

Some highlights:
* One of the Achilles Team members (with TWO prosthetic legs)
* save-the-rhino
* the Blues Brothers
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Spiderman
* Superman
* a wizard
* Handcycles headed uphill
* in full firemen gear
* Emotional displays: Exultant | overwhelmed | mission accomplished | content, with kids | fighting on | disappointed
* And if you're into ogling physiques, the warm day exposed a lot of skin (here and here and here).

Here's the link to the lost-and-found gallery of pictures: (all pictures in this post came from Brightroom)
http://www.brightroom.com/lost_photos.asp?EVENTID=7803

Oh and some of you run with the Reservoir Dogs, right? Do you know this person?
Photo ID# 7803-5980-022

And another question...the bridge that the firemen are on...which one is that? I didn't like it and neither did my feet. Oww.





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Short Version: I did it! Finished with a chip time of 4:42 on a warm and humid day.

The rest is really long behind the lj-cuts. I'm pretty happy. I can imagine trying to do this again some day (though not soon).

ChampionChip timing device
Champion Chip timing device; picture from NYCM website

Getting to the Start at an Ungodly Hour )

Waiting for the race to start )

The Start of the Race - Staten Island )

Brooklyn )

Queens )

Manhattan, first time )

The Bronx )

Manhattan, second part )

Hooray! I won! I won!

Want to see some more pictures? Go to this post.




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