I missed Tuesday's track workout because I had to go to a neighborhood Mom's meeting. Wednesday I was in LA and after complaining to a fellow manager he suggested I bring my running stuff to the city since I was planning on working from San Francisco anyway. Uh....
This made me a little nervous. Some of the managers run together and I get the impression they are all pretty good. I asked Sumeet to take it easy on me and he said, "NO problem, we'll just go maybe 4 miles." I had a 10K race scheduled for Saturday so figured this would be great if I could just keep up with him.
The run started well. Sumeet really did take it easy on me. Running along the Embarcadero was really pretty. I had not been behind the Pac Bell Stadium and it was really nice. I had to walk a few times but I felt like I was doing much better than I expected. Sumeet had warned me we were headed to a hill and I could decide if I wanted to run up it, "once, twice, three times, whatever."
The hill was impressive. It was a straight up wall. Very San Francisco like. At this point I was tired so I decided to not run up. I thought I would walk up. Sumeet did run up it, and down (waved to me) and back up (met me at the top), and back down, and back up (waved to me again), and back down, then we headed back to the office.
I couldn't believe I was still running. I was tired on the way back and just hoping to keep it up until we got to the office. I knew it was late by this point, I'm soooo slow. I started to freak about the race on Saturday, that was going to be more than 6 miles.
It was late when we got back, and just barely got any food because the cafe was closing. I missed a meeting and felt bad to have slowed Sumeet down. When I finally got back to my desk, Sumeet says to me, "oh.... hey....it was a little more than 4 miles," I was a little relieved by that. "How much more?" I asked, "uh....it was 6.5 miles"
"Really?" I was excited. I hadn't run a 10K in awhile and was wondering if I could. My knee hurt a little bit, but I really started to believe I could complete the run portion of the triathlon, which I had started to doubt.
I was hobbling around the office a bit, but I felt good. I hoped I would feel well enough to run the race on Saturday. Hey I just ran 6.5 miles!
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For those of you counting, it was actually 6.76 miles and I was not slowed down at all. Great run! Not a lot of traffic lights, great neighborhoods -- South Beach, Mission Bay and Potrero. Here's the gmap for anyone who needs it:
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2556830
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