What ever it takes!

Decided my legs needed a day off, 1 hour on the elliptical, 30 minutes of weights.

13 miles because I had to tack on an extra .5 out and back in the middle to go find a bathroom.  If I would have known it was a full .5 miles from my normal turn around out to the end of the pier I would have been doing that all along.  Plus I think my hotel is about .15 miles further than it was last week.  Anyway, 13 mile runs the rest of the week.

13 miles again, my Garmin Database said it was full 1/2 way though the run and wouldn't give me info on my return, so even though I had one really fast mile I can't prove it cause my watch doesn't show it  so I guess it never happened.

A better run today than yesterday, but I'm done with this place.  Let me go home!!!  My mind was all over the place today, you know how sometimes when you go on a long road trip and you're driving and all of a sudden realize you just drove 100 miles and can't remember any of it?  That's how my run was this morning.

What a fun surprise on my run this morning, out doing my normal route for my last day in San Francisco when I came across the start line for the Napa Valley Ragnar, and it looked like the first wave of people had just left about 15 minutes before I got there.  I followed blinky light people along my normal running route but then they turned off on a trail I'd never ventured on in the dark before so I followed.  I kept running past people talking to them and then running on a head saying hi to everyone I passed.  The first leg goes from Crissy field across the Golden Gate bridge to the look out point on the other side so I decided to extend my run and go with them all the way across the bridge.  I had a ton of fun, I've never ran Ragnar before, but now I can say I ran 1 leg of Ragnar, perhaps if I keep training I can run all 3 one day.

Turned around and waved to everyone I'd just passed again but I was now running late cause I didn't plan on going that far this morning and I had to get some shipping stuff in order before my flight this morning, so I had to kind of book it back,  along the embarcadaro I passed a guy, he didn't like being passed and I could tell he sped up and was right on my tail, he then attempted to pass me, well unfortunatly for him he picked the wrong day to race me cause I was feeling exceptionally frisky this morning after my good run.  I put the hammer down and kicked it into 6:00/mile gear, that didn't loose him so I had to kick it into 5:30 gear, which I actually didn't know I had that gear but it did the trick, that guy got left in the dust :)

Great fun run this morning, got all my stuff shipped and now I'm sitting at the airport waiting for my late flight.  I can pretty much count on this flight being delayed 1 hour so I'm not sure why I even try to get here in time.  I'm so happy to be headed home.

Ryan is injured and I wanted a longish run today, why I'm not sure just thought I should. So I contacted Carina since I knew her and her minions would be running long today. She tried to scare me by saying it would be 5:00am, that didn't work, they she tried to scare me by saying I'd be the only guy with 8 girls, nope that didn't scare me. Then she told me it was 23 miles, that almost did it, but I figured I could break off early. Had a fun run, Julie C was there and wanted to do 18 so her and I broke off and ran back. She wanted to tempo the last 3 so I practiced my pacing skills on her, she was amazing and took everything I threw at her.

8:03 average for the whole run. 6:40 average the last 3.