Central Park

Central park has always been the only one thing on earth I wanted to visit with my own eyes. I’ve seen many pictures, movies but I never thought that one day, I would be able to jog in it. You may wonder why central park fascinates me the most. Well when I think about New York City, I think about very tall buildings, I think about a very high dense of population, taxi waiting for the green light so they could frustrate by standers, it’s very dynamic and unfortunately, it’s a lot of stress as well.

However, I also think about this huge rectangle in the city that just seems to come out of nowhere. From very tall skyscraper, landscape suddenly changes to a huge peaceful quiet park. A park where people enjoy spending time together. From grey skyscrapers, the colors suddenly turn to all different type of green. From taxi’s honking, you hear birds singing. These are the reasons why I want to see central park, to see the broken line between the city and its park.

Today was at the same time just an ordinary day and a special day. Indeed, I did my daily jogging but for the first time, somewhere else than my usual treadmills. Oh and beside, I can run much longer than 10 minutes now. With me being so stubborn, I’m able to run for 1H20 min ^^.

I woke up at 8AM, took a quick breakfast and went out of the hostel. By the time I went out, I couldn’t help notice how sunny it was however cold at the same time. Time to run to Central Park. Since this latter is so huge, there is no way for me to visit all central park in just one morning of jogging. So I just ran through the north of it. There I saw a huge lake: the Jacqueline Onassis Reservoir. So I decided to make quick tour. Nevertheless, running in a park and on a treadmill is totally different things. I would never though that it would actually be harder to run outside than on our fitrec. The ground is uneven and the wind is blowing on me with a freezing intensity. As for as the landscape, you feel like you are running in a huge forest but when you look at the horizon, you can see the tall building emerging from the park. And that is exactly what I wanted to witness.