via youtube.com
If Usain Bolt was ever on cops, they'd have trouble catching him in their cars.
via brazenracing.com
Just signed up for the half marathon, and my sister's gonna do the 10k. It looks like it'll be a lot of fun. Anyone wanna join us?
Also, there's one more trail race in this series, The Rocky Ridge Trail, which is on October 24th. I'll probably do the half marathon in that one, too.
Race Thru the Redwoods 10K
August 16, 2009
Felton, California
This looks like fun, but I don't think I'll drive all the way down there unless I can get someone (or someones ;-) to run it with me. So we'll see what happens.
Since I didn't get any company for my lunch run today, I decided to mix things up and run to Coit Tower instead of the normal run along the Embarcadero to Fisherman's Wharf and back. I learned a few things from the endevour:
- Telegraph hill is neither as tall nor as far away as it looks.
- Stairs are infernal torture devices designed by Satan himself.
It ended up being a rather enjoyable run: I discovered a flower garden on the side of the hill, and the views were, of course, spectacular.
In case you're curious, I did upload the map.
I'm definitely going to have to explore more on lunch runs, it was really nice not to be doing the same old run again.
They've posted the official results. I came in 171st overall, 38th in my age group. More importantly, my overall time was 48:26.0, which is 7:48 per mile. That's about 6 minutes faster than my time last year. Ironically, even though I was faster this time, I came in 2 places lower in my age group.
Previously.
Just finished another stadium to stadium 10k. I think I'm about 10 minutes faster than last year, and I have a much more amusing number.
That puzzling line from an e-mail my running partner Janet Bowman sent me a few days ago leaps to mind as we struggle up a trail pitched at the angle of a ski jump. Perspiration streams off my head like a hard rain as I gasp for air, even though we're moving at a pace that might be generously described as a determined shuffle. In fact, just minutes into a 9.5-mile trail run across Northern California's Golden Gate National Recreation Area, I'm wondering how many anaerobic-thresholds lie ahead. I'm here for an adventurous four-day, 42-mile run through Marin County, a place with a reputation for fearsome hills and arguably the country's best trail running. More than 500 miles of footpaths spiderweb through 40 federal, state, and county parks covering some 170,000 acres. The parks contain forests of towering redwoods, a coastline where elephant seals bellow on secluded beaches, and hills harboring Tule elk and half the bird species in North America.
via runnersworld.com
I *so* need to do this sometime. It sounds like amazing amounts of fun. (Having a subscription to Runners World can be dangerous, I'm thinking of signing up for this half marathon, because I saw the ad in the magazine...)
Well, today's a day for signing up for races. I'm going to run the first half of the San Francisco Marathon on July 26th. It starts obnoxiously early in the morning (like 5:30am), but the first half is the part that goes along the Embarcadero and over the Golden Gate Bridge, so I can't help but pick it. I figure this will probably be a bit harder than the mostly flat Shamrock n' Half Marathon, so we'll see if I can keep up a similar time. Oh, and I'm determined to run the full San Francisco Marathon next year. (This is my year for half marathons, next year is going to be the year for marathons.)
No one ever seems to take me up on these, but I'm going to continue trying. ;-) I'm going to be running this year's Stadium to Stadium 10k. It's on June 20th. You should join me, because it will be fun, and it's kinda neat to end the race on the field at Candlestick. Anyways, for more info and to register. Holler if I've managed to convince you.
The pictures from the Shamrock 'n Half Marathon have been posted. These are the best pictures of all the races I've been in, so I'm actually debating if it's worth the $50 to buy them. There are 9 pictures of me, so that's about $5.50 a picture. Well, I have at least until 6/21 before they charge an extra $5 for the privilege of ordering the pictures, so I do have time to think about it.