What ever it takes!

Today really could have gone either way, sleep in? / run?  I woke up a little late and decided I might as well get the blood flowing or I'd be dragin' at work today.  10 easy miles on the first non-foggy morning since I got to San Fran.  A very nice view of the Golden Gate Bridge from Fort Mason.

Now, let the conference begin.

Just tried to keep my effort a bit above normal the whole run, 3 things helped me, 1 at the top of Fort Mason I had a little confrontation with a skunk, him being nocturnal and me having no light gave him the upper hand, so I just kind of sprinted past him which got my speed up, then when I got to Crissy park something in the bushes growled at me giving me a scare, not sure if it was a bum, a bear, or a dog but it got my pace up to sub 6:00 for a few 100 yards, then on the way back at Fishermans Warf there was a guy on the other side of the street running a pretty good clip so I decided to catch up to him, when I passed him he immediately sped up and passed me, this continued for about 1 mile at one point we were running about 5:40 pace.  So overall a pretty good run. 

Total 12 miles in 1:25.

Great, I'm coming down with a cold, woke up with a really sore throat.  I decided to run anyway and maybe that would make me feel better.  It did, but I was definately more fatigued at the end then normal.  I'm pretty sure I always get sick in San Francisco, I should have been taking my Emergen-c.

Yesterday our network got brought to it's knees by non-other than the late Steve Job's back from the dead to wreak havoc on my network.  Turns out 9,000 iPhone's broadcasting Bonjour packets can produce a whole lot of traffic.

I was excited when I heard that VM World had a 5K this morning, I wasn't excited when I found out they wanted $110 to run it.  I decided it would be a funner run to just run the same 12 miles I've done for the last week, which actually follows about 1/2 of the 5K route I found out this morning.  No runners were there yet just the setup people but at least I felt like I was running a race in slow motion.

I had considered going 15 today, but this cold is kickin' my trash so I just ran the usual 12 mile out and back.  I wonder if running with a cold is as good as training as a long run without nutrition cause is sure feels the same.

It's been a long time since I was on the first page of the mileage board.

Good run today, my legs felt very peppy despite still having a nagging cold.  I didn't really try to run hard but I did have a higher than normal average pace just due to feeling good.

Went to the Bon Jovi concert last night, it was very disappointing, he's basically turned into a cover band.

Traditionally I run all the way across the GG bridge on my last morning in San Francisco but this morning I felt like trash and truthfully 12 was probably way over doing it but I had to keep my 12 streak going on.

We gotta finish up some stuff and then hurry to the airport to get the heck out of dodge.

This morning did not go as planned at all, plan was to meet Ryan at Maverik and do our normal run, when we got there it was pouring rain, he didn't want to run in the rain and me still having a cold didn't think it was a great idea so we split up and decided to just head to our gym of memebership.  When I got off on 114th south on my way to Lifetime I felt my car driving funny, I thought it was just the wet road but then realized I had a flat tire.  I drove through the intersection into Walmart and parked it outside the tire center, then I stood around wondering what my next step was, run to the gym, call for a ride, change my tire, or just run home.  I decided to just run home and go back later to take care of the tire, so that's what I did.  Conveniently it was exactly 12 miles home so I didn't mess with my 12 streak :)  Actually I had to run the 1/4 loop when I got home to hit 12.