Met MacK bright and early. We walked 1 then stretched right in front of a church door which was locked, and in front of a guy waiting in his car. It was probably 5 or more degrees warmer right by the door, so I insisted on giving this guy a show. Then we ran one mile easy. I wanted to start the tempo after we got off Zephyr hill at about 5.5 on the SF 1/2 marathon and go to mile marker 4 and turn around, for a more flat course, but MacK only wanted 5 miles total running, so we had to start the tempo earlier, at about 6.15 ont he SF 1/2 marathon course, went down Zephyr in mile 1, then flatish, about to the 4.6ish area of the SF course. Splits are by garmin (my old garmin, which likes to measure miles long). Wore my HR monitor to gather data. Hate wearing that thing. 1 - 6:54 flatish except down Zephyr hill (.1 mile long), 160 bpm (is this average, this is the number my garmin is giving when I look at this lap in the history) 2 - 6:39 flatish, has some grade changes but nets zero because 180 turn halfway through, 167 hr 3 - 6:49 flatish except Zephyr hill from .6-.7, just tried not to stay strong uphill then last .3 mile, fighting need to go bathroom and wanting to finish strong, two competing forces :/ Very very happy! I was hoping to go 7:15, 6:59, 6:59 on flat course, so very pleased to do a bit better than that. Now this makes me want to race. . . Afterward met back w/Mack, ran 2 easy back to her car, then saw KellieS and the Heidi's and walked with them a bit, bothered Clay, then walked some more. Whole morning 11 miles. Will do abs later. | 