Today’s run: 3.6 miles, 43 minutes. My first run starting from the new place took me up Rivington, through the Baruch Housing complex, into East River park, up Catherine Slip, and down Bowery. This run was a little slow because the route had me stopped at quite a few red lights. But I worked it with leg extensions and side bends. All in a day’s run, people.

Tip for today: Look for solutions in unusual places. Today due to my new location I did something I never thought to do, by accident – I ran down Rivington without detouring over closer to Houston and discovered….. I can run through the Baruch housing project!!

You wouldn’t think discovering that you can run through the projects would be a life improvement, but in fact, it is. Is allows me to bypass the bane of my run, the ugly, smelly, sunlit stretch of Houston directly before the East River. Instead I ran through the shady, tree-lined sidewalks of Baruch, smiling at welfare mothers and their adorable children and nodding at the elderly in wheelchairs.

Hurrah! And I love my new apt!