M.O.R.E.: The Hump Day

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

The Hump Day

Hmm, I know what you're thinking, no not THAT kind of hump, but the middle of the week kind! On the hump day of the week, we tackled the many humps, bumps, and hills at the C.O.C. course tonight. Patty, C, C's daughter, and I ran a warm up lap first and stretched before heading onto the trail. This seems to make a world of difference for me to be able to warm up and stretch before starting right into a climb. Patty and I started with our water belts on the warm up lap, but we quickly got rid of them before going up on the course because they just felt oppressive in the humidity. That was a huge mistake! We were so thirsty and cotton mouth by our first lap on the course. Thankfully C had carried her water with her and was generous to share. We all agreed that the freeway right next to the course really makes it difficult to breath, but for some reason it was a little easier the second time around. I am happy to report that last week's horrible run on the same course was just a phase and this time was much better for me. As before, we ran two quicker laps around the track and then ran two cool down laps without our shoes. It feels so good to take off your shoes after running. We finished just in time before they locked the gates on us. C's daughter wasn't so lucky. She had to take the long way out, but that's okay she's young, she can handle it. While we were waiting for C's daughter, some guy drove up and rolled down his window in front of us like he was going to ask us a question. Instead he pointed a flash light in our eyes. Of course we all stared at him like "deer in the headlights" just waiting. Thankfully it was just one of the hubbies trying to pull a prank on us. It worked.

1 comment:

Patty said...: Wow! love the quote, it is so true. I felt good tonight but a little bummed because as good as I have been feeling my friends are feeling even better, and leaving me in their dust. I have to think that working the hills every week is doing us good, and the cooldown is worth driving to COC for! Looking forward to morning runs, ONE more day of work, yay!!!!; July 15, 2009 at 10:40 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.