Sean's Running Blog

Short run this morning after dropping my daughter off at school. Headed to SF tomorrow for the rest of the week. looking forward to some nicer weather.

Arrived in beautiful sunny SF this morning and ran from the hotel to Embarcadero down to the GG bridge. Since i didn't have access to a track, i did a fartlek workout. 5:30 hard followed by 3:00 light; repeated 4x.

According to my watch, the two "outs" into the wind toward GG bridge I covered 1.1 and 1.09 miles. The "backs" away from GG covered 1.13 and 1.1. That tranlates into 5:01, 4:52, 5:04 and 5:01 paces. I was hoping for sub 5s but oh well. The beautiful weather made up for it.

12 glorious miles along the embarcadero from my hotel to the GG Bridge. I think I am going to stay here until it stops raining in Seattle....

Another gorgeous run along the embarcadero. Went all the way to the GG Bridge. Just perfect weather here. 50 degree and sunny ay 7am.

Today was easily one of my top 3 runs of all time. I ran from my hotel across the Golden Gate Bridge and back. Just over 16 miles. The view from the bridge as the sun was rising was unbelievable. At the apex, you are almost a football field above the ocean and you can see for miles in all directions. On the way back, I stopped about halfway acros and just enjoyed the ocean breeze looking out over one of the most beautiful skylines around.

Back to the rain this evening.

A yucky rainy and cold morning in Snoqualmie. Fortunately the wind was calm or it would have made a yucky day into an unbearable one.

The workout was a marathon focused one: Run 12 easy miles (6:45s or so) and then jump right into a 3x2M interval workout with a 1/2 mile float in between each. Target time for the 2-mile segments was 10:20.

I didn't feel all that great during the 12 miles. Several days enjoying the food of San Francisco left me feeling pretty heavy and bloated. Plus I was soaking wet and pretty cold.

The first two mile segment came in at 10:13 as did the second. Everything felt pretty comfortable. The final repeat was in 10:06. I decided to run that one a bit harder just because. A really solid workout heading into my rest day tomorrow.