So since the spring, the SF Marathon has been in concept only. Long runs, intervals, recovery runs have all been attempts to arrive at the start line prepared. Now I am at the point to physically arrive at the start line. How am I feeling? Well, a little under prepared. Mostly prepared, but not completely prepared. This week I wanted to do a longish run of 8 miles and twisted my ankle kinda badly and stopped after 2 miles. Then an easy run 2 days later followed by 6 x 400s on the track were the final prep work before race weekend.
Yesterday, I spent the night in Watsonville with Sarah as she shows this week. I didn’t see her ride, but her experience has been really good, including a win in the open ranch horse versatility division. She now has a cool buckle from the show. Jack and I went for a mtn bike ride at Wilder Ranch. We went on the flat along the coast. Beautiful, but a bit short. We explored around, but rather than heading for the hills, which it looks would be great, we bounced back down to the flat. Jack is dealing with a bit of an aggressive student loan company and was kinda bummed to have “fallen” or been taken advantage of. I worry about him. The ride was really nice tho, and we toped it off with some ice cream in Santa Cruz at the Penny Ice Cream shop. They don’t make your typical chocolate, vanilla, & cookies and cream. Instead they featured blackberry & corn, basil and
Pushing hard today ... 