Archives: Runs

This was a nice day for a walk out to meet a friend, then con­tin­ue on a walk out to Six­teenth Street, over to Ter­ry François and to Illi­nois Street, a return path I used to do fre­quent­ly back when I lived over on 22^nd Street.

At 22^nd Street we took a brief tour of the grad­u­ate stu­dios of my old school, SFAI. The stu­dio setups were a bit maze­like and I’m def­i­nite­ly glad to rent my own … Read the rest

The start­ing point for this walk is not correct—the GPS did­n’t find enough satel­lites quick­ly enough and I end­ed up not start­ing track­ing until I was a lit­tle ways up the 20^th Street bridge.

I think I nev­er got good satel­lite lock today—look how errat­ic the path is. This is clear­ly not an accu­rate reflec­tion of the walk, but it’s close enough. Prob­a­bly the delayed start off­sets the dis­tance added by the vari­ance from the actu­al walk.… Read the rest

I thought I could beat the rain and make a quick trip over to Sun­dance for some morn­ing cof­fee. Turns out the rain was com­ing in faster than I’d antic­i­pat­ed. It start­ed com­ing down just after I’d crossed back over the 20^th Street bridge. I got pret­ty well soaked. It wait­ed until I was about a block away from home before real­ly com­ing down hard but I walked the last two-thirds of a mile or more in mod­er­ate rainfall.… Read the rest

It was fool­ish to tack­le a sev­en-mile course for what was pret­ty much my first run of the year, but it was great to get out and run. I took lots of walkbreaks—something I would­n’t ever have done a few years ago. But a few years ago I was­n’t over 200 pounds and a few years ago was before I broke my foot. At this point, just get­ting out there is a victory.

That is itself a strong argu­ment that … Read the rest