M.O.R.E.: Happy Easter

Friday, April 2, 2010

Happy Easter

Today was the perfect spring day, a day so typical of spring when you don't really know if you will need a long sleeve or a short sleeve shirt on your run. This morning started out chilly, but warmed up nicely as Patty, Sea-N-Sun and I met at Peet's for our long run. Sea-N-Sun however didn't know it was going to be our long run (Patty forgot to mention that minor detail to her). We ended up running 8.25 miles to the water pipes near the Cross Valley Connector and back. We took a fairly easy pace since our unaware friend had not run that far in a long time, but she ended up doing just fine and I think we ended up under 10 min pace. She did so well in fact that she was talking about doing a half marathon.

We would all like to run the Wine Country Half Marathon in Santa Barbara, but just don't know if we can swing it with mother's day and track meets coming up. The usual stuff that seems to get in the way. I think we should just say that the half-marathon will be our mother's day present and just do it. We feel guilty about spending Mother's Day away from our family if we do this race, but isn't Mother's Day meant for us to spoil ourselves? We've been looking for something else to get our motivation up and I think this will do it.

I'm glad I was able to meet my friends for a run this morning so I can enjoy a busy Easter weekend with my family. Happy Easter everyone and enjoy the spring break for those of us who are lucky enough to have it off.

1 comment:

Patty said...: So glad to have a week off, but kind of sad that my baby will be gone for most of it! It seems like we are both going to be visiting colleges again this break, at least my options are limited this year. I felt really good on our run, a little spent, the last 2 miles but glad we were able to get a long run in before the weekend starts. I am feeling like I am coming down with something, hope it is just because I am tired from going, going, going all day, I would be so mad to be sick for spring break. Enjoy the time with your family.; April 2, 2010 at 6:36 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.