Astoria to the George Washington Bridge
I’ve been running with a Garmin Forerunner 305 for the last several months, but I just discovered the Garmin Connect feature, which allows me to create cool maps like this that show where I ran.
This morning, I ran 22 miles, starting in Astoria, over the Triboro bridge to Randall’s Island, then into the city via the 102nd St. pedestrian bridge. I cut across Manhattan to Riverside Drive, then headed up Riverside to Washington Heights. Finding the access ramp to the pedestrian/bike path over the bridge was a challenge–some online sources say access is at 178th and Ft. Washington, but it is actually two blocks further west, at 178th and Cabrini, on the south side of 178th.
I zigzagged through Harlem to get back to the Triboro, then took the long route around Randall’s island to round the route up to an even 22 miles.
Tennis Rankings by Peak
Here’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time.
There are a lot of players kicking around the top 100 these days who, at some point or other in their careers, were much, much better. Some are old and fading; others have struggled with injuries; others just got lucky for a stretch and couldn’t keep up their level of play.
In any event, I think “peak ranking” is worth looking at. I doubt it has any predictive value (at least on its own), but you might look at this list for a notion of how good a player could be on his best day. It’s also interesting to see the players who are at or near their career peak right now.
The table shows the current ATP top 100, sorted by peak ranking. In cases of ties, the player who achieved the ranking most recently is listed first. “Curr” is current ranking as of 4/12, “Peak” is the highest ranking the player has achieved, and “MostRecent” is the last date at which the player held that peak ranking. (Format is YYYYMMDD.) Enjoy!
Player Curr Peak MostRecent Roger Federer 1 1 20100412 Rafael Nadal 3 1 20090622 Andy Roddick 7 1 20040119 Juan Carlos Ferrero 16 1 20031027 Lleyton Hewitt 30 1 20030526 Novak Djokovic 2 2 20100412 Andy Murray 4 2 20090831 Tommy Haas 21 2 20021007 Nikolay Davydenko 6 3 20070611 Ivan Ljubicic 14 3 20061016 Juan Martin Del Potro 5 4 20100111 David Ferrer 17 4 20080825 James Blake 53 4 20070101 Fernando Gonzalez 11 5 20070528 Tommy Robredo 23 5 20070423 Rainer Schuettler 91 5 20040510 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 10 6 20090112 Gilles Simon 26 6 20090105 Nicolas Lapentti 96 6 20000417 Robin Soderling 8 7 20100322 Fernando Verdasco 12 7 20090504 Richard Gasquet 75 7 20080225 Mikhail Youzhny 13 8 20080218 Marcos Baghdatis 29 8 20060925 Radek Stepanek 19 8 20060814 Marin Cilic 9 9 20100412 Gael Monfils 18 9 20090427 Stanislas Wawrinka 20 9 20080929 Tomas Berdych 15 9 20080414 Nicolas Massu 88 9 20040913 Arnaud Clement 78 10 20010409 Nicolas Almagro 34 11 20080707 Paul-Henri Mathieu 48 12 20080421 Jarkko Nieminen 68 13 20060717 Ivo Karlovic 28 14 20081006 Juan Monaco 24 14 20080519 Juan Ignacio Chela 52 15 20040809 Mardy Fish 87 17 20040322 Igor Andreev 50 18 20081110 Xavier Malisse 81 19 20020826 John Isner 22 20 20100308 Feliciano Lopez 35 20 20050221 Samuel Querrey 25 22 20100308 Philipp Kohlschreiber 33 22 20091005 Viktor Troicki 37 24 20090810 Olivier Rochus 56 24 20060807 Victor Hanescu 39 26 20090706 Jurgen Melzer 27 26 20090615 Andreas Seppi 46 27 20080707 Potito Starace 62 27 20071015 Thomaz Bellucci 31 28 20100208 Albert Montanes 32 28 20100201 Dudi Sela 70 29 20090921 Jeremy Chardy 43 31 20091109 Andreas Beck 55 33 20091102 Julien Benneteau 36 33 20091019 Janko Tipsarevic 38 33 20080519 Florian Mayer 45 33 20041004 Michael Llodra 66 34 20080623 Philipp Petzschner 49 35 20090921 Florent Serra 67 36 20060626 Karol Beck 80 36 20050829 Marc Gicquel 74 37 20081006 Benjamin Becker 40 38 20100118 Ernests Gulbis 44 38 20080804 Lukasz Kubot 41 41 20100412 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 42 41 20100322 Horacio Zeballos 47 41 20091116 Marcel Granollers 89 44 20090216 Steve Darcis 97 44 20080512 Pablo Cuevas 54 45 20091012 Michael Zverev 92 45 20090803 Evgueni Korolev 71 46 20100222 Oscar Hernandez 83 48 20071008 Eduardo Schwank 61 50 20090223 Michael Berrer 51 51 20100412 Marco Chiudinelli 59 52 20100222 Fabio Fognini 57 54 20100322 Sergey Stakhovsky 69 54 20091102 Leonardo Mayer 63 54 20090914 Simon Greul 58 55 20100322 Daniel Kollerer 94 55 20091026 Yen-Hsun Lu 99 55 20090413 Andrei Goloubev 85 56 20090831 Denis Istomin 82 57 20090727 Alejandro Falla 60 60 20100412 Lukas Lacko 65 60 20100308 Michael Russell 73 60 20070813 Stephane Robert 64 61 20100222 Peter Luczak 76 64 20091012 Alexander Dolgopolov 72 69 20100322 Jan Hajek 84 71 20061106 Daniel Gimeno 100 72 20100104 Thiemo de Bakker 77 73 20100308 Rajeev Ram 93 78 20091116 Ilia Marchenko 79 79 20100412 Daniel Brands 86 86 20100412 Santiago Giraldo 90 88 20100322 Pere Riba 95 95 20100412 Blaz Kavcic 98 96 20100322
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