Overdid it but made it all the way home
Today’s run: 5.33 miles in a sluggish 1:09:53. I’m disappointed not so much in the final time, but in how hard I hit the wall while I was out there. The sun was beating down and sure felt hotter than the 70 degrees my weather widget says it is.
I went out and around Mays Field, which was fun because there was a game at the time. I heard Rich Aurelia (I think) hit a home run from the other side of China Basin, out by Mission Rock Street, heard the crowd’s roar and watched the water spouts celebrate the homer.
I got around the ballpark but was really feeling worn down as I crossed the Lefty O’Doul drawbridge. I pushed harder and ran through my mental bag of tricks to keep me going, but ran right out of energy at about the four mile mark, coming past The Landing restaurant’s entrance. I walked most of the way back up to the Twentieth Street Bridge and back Twentieth home. I resumed running a couple of times, but all but one block of the uphill sections of Twentieth to the top of Potrero Hill I walked.
So jumping up to a five mile course from doing two-mile walks might have been overambitious. But I got to see where my limits are, and the best way to raise those limits is to come up against them. And now I feel like I’m back in the game.
