I ran the Kaiser Permanente 1/2 Marathon today. On the day before my birthday. That makes 4 half-marathons for when I am/was a 44-year old. That’s not bad when you consider that I started running a single mile in March 2007. 45 will be more interesting as I will be running full marathons. Yay!
The weather has been pretty bad. So I spent most of Friday, Saturday and Sunday checking weather.com . The San Francisco weather didn’t disappoint: it RAINED during the run.
Mark, my postman, who also runs and maintains a run-fanatic mailing list, joined me at my house at 5am. We left in two cars. Mark with me and his uncle, cousin and friend in another.
We arrived at something like 6.10am at the Great Highway. Fortunately, there were already a bunch of people and we just followed the cars in front of us to find the parking.
It was really cold that early in the morning, with the sea wind and all. We were glad to get on the Laidlaw school buses to be transported to the start point.
The weather until about 7.40am was okay: windy and cold but not wet. Then it started to drizzle intermittently. During the run, it rained a little.
The worst part was after the U-turn on the Great Highway: we were running against a really strong and cold head wind. It really sucked the energy out of me.
In the end, I still did a PR of 1:49.43, about 16 seconds faster than Silicon Valley Marathon. The good thing is that I had a strong finish, sprinting the last 20-30 yards.
This run didn’t use chip timing. So my PR was based on my stopwatch. The official clock time was 1.51++.
Anyway, it was a good run.
It’s Superbowl Sunday and the Brand Management professor wanted us to watch the ads. So I basically spent the afternoon on the couch, in front of the TV, with my readings for Monday’s class on the lap and a beer in the hand. Well, several beers…
Hey, I need the calories!