The last time we ran in San Francisco, I PR’d in my time. This time…in distance.
Recently I’ve only been getting in about 2 runs a week and try to make the weekend run a long run to boost our weekly mileage. This week, the last time we ran was Monday and it was a crap run. With that and since we are on vacation, I decided to only do a 2 mile run.
When we woke up bright and early this morning (thanks construction) I got changed quickly so as to not talk myself out of it. Jeff wanted to catch a few zzz’s to make up for yesterday’s lack thereof so just me and my mom went out.
I had kept warning my mom that I run slow and she assured me that was fine. So we headed out to run. {Side note: Why did my Garmin take like 2 seconds to catch signal here when it takes minutes at home???? What the heck So Cal???}
Our run had us going towards the Marina and then around Crissy Field. Somewhere during 1 mile, we ran right past Aron from Runner’s Rambles. I totally shouted out at my mom, oh my gosh I read her blog! She just looked at me all confused, LOL.
Our plan was turn around at mile 1 but then my mom suggested running to the Golden Gate Bridge. She said it was only 2 miles and we could walk the whole way back. It sounded like a plan so we kept going.
It was actually 2.3 miles to the bridge. We ran to the end so I could put my hands on Hooper’s hands and then turned and kept running. Up until this point, I had only ran 2.25 mile straight but felt good so I thought I’d push myself.
{Side note: Jeff ran this route yesterday morning without stopping! He went to Hooper’s hands, one of the reasons I wanted to push myself to go there today. Holla!!}
At 3 miles I had planned on stopping. I took 1 walking step before my mom suggested we run just a bit more to the stop sign (about a 1/4 mile away. I felt pretty good so agreed.
We finally stopped at the 4 mile mark. THAT’S RIGHT – 4 MILES OF STRAIGHT RUNNING W/O BREAKS!! HOLY CRAP!!
4 miles in 49:02, done and done!
When I checked the Garmin I also noticed we did negative splits. WHAT?!?!
- Mile 1 – 12:43 (I told you I run slow)
- Mile 2 – 12:19
- Mile 3 – 12:04
- Mile 4 – 11:57
Holla!!
**My legs are going to scream at me as we walk around the city. Sorry legs.
