M.O.R.E.: Not a Perfect Ten

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Not a Perfect Ten

After our Marathon, we loosely agreed that our weekend runs would be 10 milers. We figured since we had been training for the Marathon, we had pushed our mileage up to 20 at time, and 10 would be simple to accomplish on a weekly basis. Well, that did not happen today for C and I. I don't feel bad, we still managed 6.6 this morning, but we purposely avoided the SCR's "Ben's Ten" which was scheduled for this morning. Marathon Mom is out of town, and she was truly the only one of us who wanted to run ten miles with someone timing us, and then possibly posting our times somewhere to haunt us at a later time. I had run two days in a row, and was doubtful that I had a "good" ten miler left in my legs today. I convinced (it wasn't hard) C to meet a half hour later at Peet's and run in the opposite direction as the SCR's, so we wouldn't get caught up in their fun. I did feel a bit guilty when I was driving to Peet's and saw alot of SCR's running across the bridge on McBean. C and I ran along the Heritage Trail to Copperhill and back, a total of a bit over 6.6 miles. I purposely did not look at my Garmin while we were running, because I did not want to focus on our pace, but just get in as many miles as we could. It was a tough run today, very cold, and the slight uphill to Copper always seems like slow torture (I know, I know, I've mentioned this many times). We did however see many bikers out today, and a couple of our friends too, all trying to get a bit of exercise before the big rainstorm hits. As soon as we stopped running, the clouds cleared away, and it got warm and sunny, really beautiful (good thing since my #4 son went to the beach today with his friends). We joked that we should have waited an hour, and we would have really had perfect weather for our run. It was really nice to sit and talk over our lattes, and we both agreed that we would have run the 10 miler with Marathon Mom, but without her it just wouldn't be the same. I guess we will hear about it when she gets back. We are hoping for a break in the rain on Monday, so we can get our run in, hope you all enjoy the holiday weekend!

1 comment:

marathon mom said...: I guess it's okay that you didn't run 10 miles since I didn't either. I did go for a run/walk for about 4.5 miles on Glacier Point road on Saturday before the storm came. I skied all day Sunday too and at the higher altitude I could feel my heart pumping pretty hard. Conditions were blizzard-like from Sunday afternoon to the time we left today at around noon. It sure was pretty though. I'm hoping there are enough gaps in between these waves of storms for us to get a run in here and there.; January 18, 2010 at 6:58 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.