"Bonding"
Race Day! (and my Dad's B-day!) Unfortunately no pic's of the actual race itself (we were busy running it!). This day started at 4am with 2 bums fighting outside our window over glass bottles in the recycle bin! It was a colorful fight from what I could hear from the 4th floor. My race started at 5:50am, so I took a warm shower, ate cereal with water out of a plastic cup (pretty bad) and walked outside my hotel to find other runners running towards the race start line about 1 mile out. I don't understand why people would be running (not jogging) towards the race, anyway I took a brisk walk and warmed up in time for the race start.
The race itself went by pretty fast, I ran the 1st half of the SF Marathon, this run took me over the Golden Gate bridge, that run alone is worth the admission fee. I didn't set any personal records, it's probably one of the worst courses to set a PR because 1. It's hilly, which sucked a LOT on miles 10-12. 2. A lot of people run the race so it gets a bit congested at parts, (the start, the bridge and the park). So though the race was fun, my training did not really pay off, I was hoping to run at a sub 7:30 min mile pace, but finished in 1:53 mins at 8:40 min mile pace :( ...Sam and Eva ran the 5k and they experienced similar issues, a whole group of people were in the front of the start and decided to walk once the gun went off...so the lesson is the first mile is usually a crap shoot in popular races like this. I almost forgot to mention that during the whole trip SF was practically freeeeezing! it was 55 degrees but with wind chill it was nearly 40 or maybe 30 I don't know I couldn't feel any extremities.
"Easy Rider"
"Beware of Sec 27174"
"Simply Golden"
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