{"id":444,"date":"2006-10-24T16:31:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T23:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2006\/10\/24\/sf-06\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T15:57:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:57:07","slug":"sf-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2006\/10\/24\/sf-06\/","title":{"rendered":"SF ’06"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got back from the Nike Women’s Marathon in San Francisco.\u00a0 The weather was perfect on Sunday and it was a\u00a0beautiful, scenic run.\u00a0 If it wasn’t for all the hills, it would have been perfect marathon conditions.\u00a0 There’s a tradition in the L.A. Leggers to post a race report following a race, so here’s mine:<\/span><\/p>\n

Woke up at 4:30am.\u00a0 Arrived at SBC Park at 5am and took a free shuttle to Union Square, where the race started.\u00a0 The race didn’t start until 7am, but I was meeting a friend<\/a> at her hotel so we could walk over together.\u00a0 We hung out in her room for awhile before venturing out at 6:15am.\u00a0 I’d forgotten to pack my jacket but fortunately it was an amazingly mild morning.\u00a0 Union Square was packed with\u00a0women.\u00a0 We\u00a0all cheered and made enough noise to raise the dead…or at least those poor unfortunate souls who had rooms in Union Square this particular weekend.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I crossed the start line approximately 6 minutes after the start time, at 7:06am.\u00a0\u00a0The sun started rising as we approached the\u00a0Embarcadaro and the first six miles brought us a beautiful\u00a0view of Golden Gate\u00a0Bridge\u00a0swathed in fog (and a surprisingly familiar face – Miss C., it was such a nice surprise to see you out there!).\u00a0 The next couple of miles were spent climbing a hill up to an elevation of\u00a0295 feet.\u00a0\u00a0Much of the run was on asphalt cutting through forests of\u00a0fog covered trees.\u00a0 At mile\u00a010 or so, we hit Golden\u00a0Gate\u00a0Park and a stretch of sunshine.\u00a0 We ran past the Bison fields in the Park and looped back out to run along the Bay, circled Lake Merced and came back\u00a0up the Bay to finish at Ocean Beach.\u00a0 Finishers got cute necklaces<\/a>\u00a0and baby blue dri-fit shirts.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Along the way, I downed a few\u00a0packets of GU Energy Gel<\/a>, half a banana, several\u00a0Clif Shot Bloks<\/a> (which are my new favorite running treat) and a Red Vine.\u00a0\u00a0My friend and I lost track of each other around mile 9\u00a0but\u00a0found each other again\u00a0at mile 25.\u00a0 Another friend of mine showed up to cheer me on at mile 25 and\u00a0ran alongside us\u00a0 for the last mile (thank you thank you thank you).\u00a0 Runners call it “towing” someone in a race.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Aside from a weird quiver\u00a0in my right leg which developed at mile 24 and\u00a0general exhaustion which started to set in at mile 20, I felt pretty good crossing the finish line.\u00a0 I finished this marathon in 05:03:56, about 13 minutes slower than the LA marathon.\u00a0 I missed my goal time of under 5 hours by almost 4 minutes, but overall it was fun race and <\/span>I’m already looking forward to the next one (having conveniently forgotten the pain and agony of the last six miles of the marathon)!<\/span><\/p>\n

[Update:\u00a0 I forgot to add the funniest sign I saw while running.\u00a0 Four guys held up a sign that read, “You’re beautiful.\u00a0 We’re lonely.\u00a0 Please call (###) ###-####.”]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just got back from the Nike Women’s Marathon in San Francisco.\u00a0 The weather was perfect on Sunday and it was a\u00a0beautiful, scenic run.\u00a0 If it wasn’t for all the hills, it would have been perfect marathon conditions.\u00a0 There’s a tradition in the L.A. Leggers to post a race report following a race, so here’s mine: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-run-y-run"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}