Short Bike, Short Run before work today.

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I for­got to use the timer on my watch, but I added up the lengths of the songs I played plus the amount into the last song I was. Need to keep bet­ter track of this stuff.

My com­mute to work is the same as always, I think it’s just about 7 miles. The bike is a LOT heav­ier laden down with change of clothes etc in the pan­niers. Although nor­mal­ly I would have all that crap on my back, so it’s a trade-off and this is prob­a­bly a lot bet­ter for me. I’ll get to ride rough­ly 7 miles home tonight too.

On the way up the Embar­cadero I took note of the odome­ter read­ing at var­i­ous points so that I would know how far to run. I had to keep a lot of num­bers in my head because I did­n’t know what the final num­ber would be, but I wrote every­thing down as best as I could remem­ber and I’ll dou­ble-check the num­bers lat­er. I ran from the door of my office to Teatro Zin­zan­ni annd back, which I’m putting at 1.65 miles. Def­i­nite­ly a reminder that the first mile is the hard­est. I got to Pier 39 and I did­n’t think I could go any far­ther, but by the time I got to Pier 39 on the way back I thought I could just keep going. So next time I can do a longer run.

The Embar­cadero is a great place to run. Yay, Embar­cadero! And Thank God for Loma Pri­eta so they had to tear down that eye­sore of a free­way down. I’m real sor­ry that peo­ple died in the Earth­quake but I’m not sor­ry that the Embar­cadero is now a beau­ti­ful thor­ough­fare for cars, bikes, and pedes­tri­ans instead of the dis­gust­ing piece of urban blight it used to be.

Any­way, my best guess now is that I did 1.65 miles in 14:50. That seems real slow, and it seemed real slow as I was doing it, but my heartrate mon­i­tor said I was run­ning at or around 190bpm, which means I’m up at 102% of maxHR. Um. That’s real bad, right? So I should go slow­er for longer distances.

Well, for future ref­er­ence: Jef­fer­son & Pow­ell to the Fer­ry Build­ing and back is 3.1 miles. Jef­fer­son & Pow­ell to direct­ly under the Bay Bridge and back is 4.2 miles, and Jef­fer­son & Pow­ell to Pac­Bell Park and back is 5.5 miles. Things to work up to.

Since I’m done with my ini­tial 3 year con­tract with my gym, I have annu­al renew­al for $99/year. At that price I think it’s worth it if I nev­er go in there again except to show­er before work after run­ning and/or cycling in.

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5 Replies to “Short Bike, Short Run before work today.”

  2. 1.55 miles. =^)
    …and the F
    1.55 miles. =^)

    …and the F Line was­n’t on-time? Big shock!

    You vis­it Pier 39 often? My office is just a cou­ple blocks away.

  3. I go to var­i­ous things in
    I go to var­i­ous things in that neigh­bor­hood, most­ly In ‘n Out. I don’t think I’ve been to Pier 39 itself in years. I most­ly ride the F line or walk around to check things out. 

    I also seem to be good at giv­ing peo­ple direc­tions because wher­ev­er I go peo­ple stop and ask me how to get places.

  4. mmm­mm.… In ‘n’ Out
    mmm­mm.… In ‘n’ Out burgers…

    Yeah, I brought a sand­wich today, but let’s grab lunch some­time since you’re in the habit of vis­it­ing the ‘hood.

  5. For­get­ting to use the timer
    For­get­ting to use the timer on your watch… Today I rode my bike around Lake Mer­ritt, won­der­ing if some­day I might see trot­ting around there, and start­ed the stop­watch at the begin­ning, and when I got one lap around I pushed the but­ton and read the watch, and it said 10:46. I went wow!, I used to think twelve and a half min­utes was a good time for me… then after the sec­ond lap, I looked again to make sure I was read­ing 10:46 cor­rect­ly, and now it said 11:02 or so. I’d pushed the wrong but­ton. It was dis­play­ing the time of day. The stop watch read over 27 min­utes by then (the sec­ond lap being slow).

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