M.O.R.E.: It's Summer!

Friday, June 26, 2009

It's Summer!

We started our run at 8am from Lowe's this morning. Marathon Mom, M our friend from work, and I headed out toward the Southfork trail with the intention of running a 5 mile out and back. We decided to skip the underpass and stayed on Bouquet and Valencia until we got to the trail that runs behind the baseball fields. It was nice and cool when we started out, but it was starting to heat up by the time we were done (any later would be impossible). Our friends C and Mary had met a bit later and ran into them going out when we were on our way back. We managed to get the 5 miles we were hoping for and keep a 9.2 pace on top of that. Our friend M is younger and a former high school runner, so when she runs with us, the pace is always a bit faster. I have to say that I can feel the pace and struggle a bit more to catch my breath, but I felt good today, up until the last mile or so. Mary and C joined us at Starbucks for some coffee and conversation before we all ran off to get something done at home. We spent a lot of time discussing books and have decided that Fridays will be our book swap day. I will be looking through mine to see what books I have that everyone might enjoy. The problem is that I am getting to the point that I don't remember that much from a book after I have read it, maybe I should just find a good one and read it over and over again!

2 comments:

marathon mom said...: It WAS getting warm this morning. That's why South Fork is always such a nice trail with all the shade along there. I can't understand why they were taking all those pepper trees down. I felt a little tired in the legs still this morning and I'm hoping I'll feel a little more energetic by our long run on Sunday.

I think the book exchange is a great idea. I don't like the idea of a formal book club, but if we're getting together anyways for coffee, why not exchange books too. I have already started cleaning my bookshelf of books I've already read and have them in my car, otherwise I will forget to bring them. Unfortunately I'll be in Mammoth this Friday so I won't be able to participate the first time :( I did start reading Twilight and I have to say, I'm already hooked! We'll have to figure out how we want to pick a book and feature it on the blog. More to talk about on our long runs!; June 26, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Patty said...: I am going to need convincing to get on that "Twilight" bandwagon, but if
we all read it, then maybe I will have you over to watch the movie. It is not really fair for you to come up with our book exchange idea and then go out of town, what were you thinking. See if you can get Deena to come out and run with us if she is ever in town, and don't beat her too badly on the mile! I hope to make the Sunday run, I am curling ribbon like a mad woman so it will all be done.; June 26, 2009 at 7:51 PM

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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.