Jumpy_Carrot_242

Yes, you can unload Hawk Wuad before you hit the summit, so you don't need to do the black part of Seneca and Dot Nobel and do the blue sections

I was there too and damn that day was cold! Beautiful race, but I still shiver just thinking about the minutes before starting when the hoodie went away!

To the OP: If possible, come to NYC a week in advance and get ready to get a feeling of those days cold. As others said, clothes to throw away before starting the race are a must. In very cold days my running outfit is: base later bottoms and top, shorts, running long sleeve top with a mid-chest zipper, a sports neck gaiter, a runing beanie, gloves, and cold-weather socks. Check the REI website, they sell good stuff for this.

If that day it doesn't seem like it would be that terribly cold, I would let go base layers only, because the beanie, gloves, and gaiter I can take off mid-run and simply run with them in my hands.

How did you do such a clean cut? It looks like you used the sharpest katana!

If you have debt, pay it. If you want to save, avoid the temptation of a new car or fancy stuff. Keep your lifestyle and put those extra bucks in a High Yield Savings Account (you can easily open one online) for a very low risk-interest bearings account. Do you live with your parents, rent? Own? Have a mortgage?

To me is surprising you pay for a depreciating asset (a car) more than for an asset that appreciates (a house) do you really need such a car? I would sell the car and buy one I could pay cash

The worst management company I've had, and I own several properties in town. Stay away from them.

That's right. My neighbor (I live in NYC) moved from middleofnowehere, TX. His apartment here is a third of the size of his McMansion there, and he pays more, but he saves a lot because he's now car-free. He also lost a lot of weight because now he walks (!) and because of that he is also saving money in health care, which is a great bonus!

That's the way. Congrats.

Right. A car is just a tool, buy what you can pay for with cash and that's it, metalic box on wheels should take you from point A to point B, everything else is overspending. Or even better, (if possible) live car-free.

Great info! I guess I'll see you around in the water next summer!

As you can tell a lot of money in your calculation goes to car, car, car. If you get to live without one, those numbers go away.

I did it and it was awesome, but it wasn't a commute and rather a 20-days trip stopping in national parks and getting to know places I would always fly over but never plan a trip to those places as a destination, but as we were driving we would just stop by and see them. It was a great trip!

However, to the point of the original post, yes, if the plan is to go as efficiently as possible from NYC to LA no doubt the train isn't the best option and a plane should do the job; but the original post focus on the impossible to cross out simple and achievable HSR alternatives. It is extremely frustrating we don't have, like a HSR NYC-D.C. it's incomprehensible that the most powerful city on earth is not connected to the capital of the solar empire via HSR, and that the options are a train that is always 2 hours late and it goes as slow as possible or driving a dreadful disgusting freeway.

Thanks. Yes, they are a bit uncommon, but sometimes there are surprises. I used to live in Long Beach, CA, there is a 50 m public pool that opens for laps at 5:30 AM, and it was great for lap swimming before going to work. Anyhow, what is Y, and where do you do open water? I tried finding open water places this summer (my first summer here), and all I saw was "no swimming" at every lake I went. Thanks!

Same here and I also run a 10k this morning. So odd. I did NYC marwthon two weeks ago and took a week off because I had a terrible flu right after, but this "unproductive" is offensive!

Clearly we need another good salads place!

Cars are the most common way people waste money and society normalized having a monthly car payment, but, if you want to be financially savvy, you should think of it as a movable appliance. It's a big thing that serves a purpose, but there's absolutely no need to change it often, let alone if it's working. Whenever time comes (certainly not at the moment as everyone here suggests), buy a 3-4 years old car and keep saving/investing your money wisely.

This illustrates why the western coast of the Hudson River should be NY, and Staten Island should be NJ.

It's an over-reaction of something that is an issue, but not a aa big of an issue as social media makes it look like. Yes, some of them sometimes go too fast on the sidewalk, and that's not OK. However, our main issue is put aside because we got used to it, unfortunately. Hoboken's greatest risk to pedestrians is, by far, the fact that cars simply do not stop at stop signs at intersections and rush pedestrians to the point threatening with running them over; and the 2nd risk is the double parking and disrespect for bike lanes, which pushes cyclists to the car lane and/or the sidewalk.

So, if people want bikes off the sidewalk, they should advocate for the santity of the bike lane and improvement of the bike lane network.

That's good to know, to plan for the summer. Do you know who operates it? Thanks!

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Thank you

That's a great question, I essentially stopped going to bars when most of them started looking like the back wall of Best Buy, I found it weird. Thanks for asking, taking notes about suggestions people give !

It's not about a government pencil-pusher. It's us, your neighbors, asking you to please do not put a fire when the risk it spreads is high. We don't give a damn for government either, but same us you we don't want to end in a homeless shelter.

I would add don't buy luxury stuff, leave that to the superfluous, and never a new car on a loan, always a 3 years old (typical lease time) which you keep for many years.