M.O.R.E.: Learned Something New

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Learned Something New

It's funny how you run by something all the time and never notice some of the details until you run with someone new. Today I ran with my husband down the west side of the river trail to the old train bridge and up the east side of the river back to the house for 6 miles. I am always teasing my husband that I think he has A.D.D., but it was he who noticed that on the top of the train bridge it reads 1898 on both sides of the entry to the bridge. I told him it had nothing to do with paying attention, but more to do with height. Since he is taller than I am, it was more in his field of vision. Anyhow it is a beautiful bridge and we are very lucky to have the city include it as part of our trail system. I think one day, they will include it into the marathon course. Speaking of marathons, I was thinking of Patty's son this morning as I was running. He is running his first marathon in San Diego and she and her husband are there to cheer him on. He has youth on his side so I'm sure he'll do great.

5 comments:

marathon mom said...: Patty just text messaged me. Her son ran 4:15 for his first marathon! Wow!!!; May 31, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Patty said...: Did you run with your phone? If so that is a pretty good picture. My son looked good for the first half of the marathon, but cramped up pretty bad from mile 14 on. He feels like he added about a half hour to his time. I am so proud of him for what he has done, and am inspired and scared to start training for our marathon! It was so much fun being there just watching, but it really made me want to be there running.; May 31, 2009 at 7:28 PM
marathon mom said...: think we'll be better prepared. Your son pretty much took a crash course in marathons and he was able to get away with it because he is young. Does he want to do another one?

I actually didn't run with my phone. I googled it and found some info and pictures about that old train bridge.; May 31, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Patty said...: I am hoping we will be prepared, you have to do it once to know what it feels like and what can go wrong so you can try to prevent those issues. The thing about a marathon is the first half is no indication of the second half, and that is the part that you need to be prepared for. He was talking about running San Francisco, but that was before he ran, not much on that after, we will see.; June 1, 2009 at 7:28 AM
Picture Lady said...: Congratulations to your son on his marathon experience. My husband, my brother and my oldest daughter have all run marathons and savor those memories.
Love the train bridge. My middle daughter and I frequent it. We enjoyed observing a nest of baby crows on top a few weeks ago. Nice place to run.; June 1, 2009 at 9:07 AM

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Favorite Trails

South Fork 3.1: Start from dirt parking lot on Magic Mtn Pkway and run to the loop at Wiley Bridge and return the same way.

Tesoro 3.25: Start in Albertson parking lot and take sidewalk/trail until it ends and then enter the water tower road to the top two towers where the ends. Return the same way.

Chesebrough 3.25/4.60: From Chesebrough Park, N. to Copperhill, So. on Bike Trail, turn around at Decoro, back up trail to power lines to bridge at park. Turn around at Heritage will give you 4.6 miles.

Chesebrough 3.5: Chesebrough Park down to McBean, south to Northpark Dr., the paseo trailhead. Take the paseo to Helmers and back. Very hilly.

Bridgeport 4.0: Fairly flat, run toward Lowes and under Bouquet bridge to RiverPark community until you reach the closed gates and return. For a hilly run, go north into Helmers and run up the paseo switchbacks into Northpark where the paseo ends and return the same way.

Chesebrough 4.0: N. to Copperhill to west side of river trail, run S. on Bike Trail past Decoro bridge, across Decoro to the east side of river trail, up back to power lines trail, back to park.

Chesebrough 4.0: From park down power line trail to Heritage Park and back same way.

Bridgeport 4.0: From School, cross McBean via bridge or street and head into industrial center on Ave. Scott Bridge and enter bike trail going south toward the train bridge. Turn around at train bridge and return same way or cross the bridge and head toward Peet's after crossing train bridge and back onto the Lowes Trail.

Heritage 4.0: From park, run up bike trail to Decoro, over McBean Bridge into Helmers, and into Bridgeport through lake trail back to park. Can be done in reverse. Moderately hilly.

Chesebrough 4.25: Chesebrough north to Copperhill, left to Albertson side of bike trail. Run south on trail to Decoro and cross over bridge and head north all the way to Copperhill on east side of river trail and back to the park the same way as started.

Cheese/Decoro/Helmers 4.25: From the park, down dirt trail to bike path, south to Decoro. Leave bike path at Decoro and cross paseo bridge at McBean. Stay on paseo up hill towards Helmers. Run up water tower trail once then continue on to switchbacks and paseos back to park.

Heritage/Bridgeport 3.3: Heritage Park south to McBean Bridge @ Panera. Cross and head toward Lowes bike trail and head east toward Bridgeport Park. Halfway mark is at park bathroom, head back by entering trail along the lake and back onto the bridge.

Lowes 4.25: Lowe's parking lot to McBean, cross the bridge and to South Fork. At Valencia Bridge, enter trail behind Hart Baseball diamonds. Continue on trail to Bouquet and across the bridge on the east side and back under the bridge again towards Lowes.

Peet's & Decoro 5.2: Peet's Coffee to train bridge path; to Decoro and across bridge; back down McBean side of bike trail back to Peete's.

Peet's & Wiley 6.0: Start at Peet's Coffee and head east toward South Fork trail and past the Wiley Bridge. Keep running another 200 yards to where the trail forks left and right. Turn back same way.

Peet's & Copperhill 6.0: From Peet's to bike trail heading north to Copperhill and back.

Albertson 7.0: From the Albertson parking lot on Copperhill, enter the westside bike trail and head south until the train bridge. Return the same way.

Peet's 8.5: Run to Copperhill on east side of river trail and return via train bridge on other side.

Lowes 10: Start in the Lowes parking lot. Enter the bike trail heading west. At McBean, cross the bridge and head east toward SouthFork trail. Continue on trail until you come to the Wiley bridge and head back the same way.

McBean 14: This route can be done from anywhere along the trail route. Starting from McDonald's across the post office, run to the end of the South Fork trail and return the same way, cross the McBean bridge and run on the Lowes trail until you hit Bridgeport Elementary and then cross Newhall Ranch via the bridge or street and run back towards McBean. Continue north on McBean until you hit Copperhill. At Copperhill, cross McBean and enter San Francisquito bike trail and run south on the trail until you are back at McDonalds.