5K race tomorrow

I'm running my first ever race tomorrow, the Denning's Point 5K, organized by Mid-Hudson Road Runners Club.

Here is a link to the course map. The course is pretty flat and runs along the Hudson River on a hard-packed trail. The middle mile is a loop of historic Denning's Point, which is a trail with some roots and rocks.

Denning's Point has quite a history. As mentioned in Jim Heron's book (see cover on the left), members of Henry Hudson's crew may have landed on Denning's Point in 1609, as George Washington certainly did during the Revolutionary War. The most exciting discovery by far, however, was finding proof that it was on Denning's Point that Alexander Hamilton first set his ideas on paper in a series of editorials that grew to become the Federalist Papers and subsequently were incorporated into the United States Constitution.

The weather looks good and 100+ runners are expected to participate. Wish me luck!