Today, the SF Marathon 18 Week Training Program peeps joined us for their first Monday Run at Sidney Walton Park. Most of my regular 26 Week Training Program peeps were missing, probably because they had all run the Emerald Across the Bay 12K yesterday. I searched the crowd for familiar people and was able to locate Lisa, Marina, Tom, Mieka, Shera, Mary and few other guys and gals whose names I don’t know yet.

Melanie, our Monday coach asked the 26 Weeks Program peeps and the 18 Week Program peeps to assemble on either side of her. She then told the 26 week program peeps to run down the Embarcadero towards AT & T Park 30 minutes out and then back, for a total of 60 minutes and the 18 week program peeps to run out for 15 minutes and then back, for a total of 30 minutes.
My heart sank when I heard that, because I was hoping we would be running the lesser distance and time with the new peeps. When Lisa heard me say that, she laughed and said that she too had been hoping for that.

Running Log – Out towards AT & T Park for 30 minutes and Back

Since most of my regular running peeps were not around, I mostly ran by myself.

At the beginning of the run, I saw Lisa and asked her why I hadn’t seen her in a while (I have a 100% attendance record todate, there I just bragged !). Lisa said she had just recovered from a cold and that the Saturday run at the Presidio had been her first run after her return, so today’s run was the second. Lauren, Lisa’s usual running partner was missing today, and Lisa told me how she had gotten sick and was out now.

Anyways, we kept running and in a few minutes, I lost Lisa and was running on my own. I ran down toward the AT & T Park, then turned left and continued onto 3rd Street. My Garmin GPS failed me yet again. more than 15 minutes into my run, it was still “locating satellites…”

I reached China Basin and slowed down a little bit. Lisa caught up to me again. She didn’t have a GPS watch, but from her regular watch, she estimated that we had run about 25 minutes. So we decided to run a little more and reached 16th Street.
There, we decided the time must be about 30 minutes, and turned back. On the way back, again I ran by myself for most of the stretch until I reached the cross over onto Battery Street, where Lisa once again caught up to me.

Back at the Home Base

I reach the home base just behind Lisa and another runner. I then stretched with Tom, Marina and Mieka. Marina was telling me how she was very excited to be running The Relay Race with Tom and few other runners in the beginning of May.  The Relay Race runs from Calistoga to Santa Cruz in the west coast, in California.

After the stretches, I got some groceries from the Safeway and headed home. Since my GPS watch failed me during the run and mapmyrun.com was annoying me with all their pop-ups and screen cluttering, I used the GMAPS Pedometer website to accurately map and measure my run distance today.

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