Sunday AM San Francisco Run
I didn't get too much sleep Saturday night even though it was a very long day and a lot of activity. Another hotel, another bed perhaps.
I really didn't want to go out and run, but what better way to see some of the city that Waverly and I hadn't already. I woke Waverly up at about 6:30 a.m. to let her know that I would be out from 45 minutes to an hour on a run. I didn't really have a plan in mind; however, I quickly put a little plan in to place.
The Marriott Courtyard is on Second Street in the south part of downtown about seven blocks west of the Bay (on the map) and a few blocks south of Market Street (for those that know the area well.) If you keep going south on Second Street here, you'll run smack into AT&T Park where the San Francisco Giants play baseball.
In honor of the city of San Francisco and its terrain, it was only natural to wear my new Seven Hills Running Club shirt.
I ran southwest down Folsom Street, right through the heart of what is known as SoMa (South of Market). It was mostly a quiet run all the way down to 14th Street. The temperature was cool (easily down in the 50s) and fog could be seen off in the northwestern part of the city.
Folsom Street is one of the hearts of the gay community in San Francisco. There was one bar - at 7 a.m. - that was still going strong. :) But I could have run naked during this run and nobody would have noticed (as most were asleep.) And there's probably a good chance that not too many people would have cared either.
At 14th Street, I was now heading due west to Dolores St. where I took a right up to Market Street. (Had I known that one of the oldest structures in San Francisco was two blocks south on 16th Street - Mission Dolores, close to the Castro section of the city - I would have altered my route a bit.) I crossed Market, took a good hill on Buchanan all the way to Haight Street.
Certainly, anyone who is familiar with the hippie movement of the late 1960s has heard of the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco. I only went west to Pierce Street before I had passed about 30 minutes on my watch -- a definite sign to turn it back around. As a result, I was only in what is known as Lower Haight. The distinction between it and Upper Haight? Literally, elevation. One I wasn't quite in the mood to climb.
I did run into a pretty fair downhill to get back to Market Street, which I took all the way back to Second Street before making a right hand turn and heading south back to the Courtyard. Earlier in the run, between mile marker 2 and 3, there was a climb of approximately 150 feet - but not all at one shot!
Especially on Market Street, where the city had started to wake up a bit, I saw a lot of people looking at my Seven Hills shirt. If the web site activity picks up today, with referrals from California, Ken will know why!
MapMyRun.com put the run (link) this morning at 5.8 miles. The time on my watch was 56:34.01 for a pace of 9:45 per mile?! I'm pretty certain that at one point I forgot to restart my watch, as my legs felt a little heavy after all the mileage from the day before.
I really didn't want to go out and run, but what better way to see some of the city that Waverly and I hadn't already. I woke Waverly up at about 6:30 a.m. to let her know that I would be out from 45 minutes to an hour on a run. I didn't really have a plan in mind; however, I quickly put a little plan in to place.
The Marriott Courtyard is on Second Street in the south part of downtown about seven blocks west of the Bay (on the map) and a few blocks south of Market Street (for those that know the area well.) If you keep going south on Second Street here, you'll run smack into AT&T Park where the San Francisco Giants play baseball.
In honor of the city of San Francisco and its terrain, it was only natural to wear my new Seven Hills Running Club shirt.
I ran southwest down Folsom Street, right through the heart of what is known as SoMa (South of Market). It was mostly a quiet run all the way down to 14th Street. The temperature was cool (easily down in the 50s) and fog could be seen off in the northwestern part of the city.
Folsom Street is one of the hearts of the gay community in San Francisco. There was one bar - at 7 a.m. - that was still going strong. :) But I could have run naked during this run and nobody would have noticed (as most were asleep.) And there's probably a good chance that not too many people would have cared either.
At 14th Street, I was now heading due west to Dolores St. where I took a right up to Market Street. (Had I known that one of the oldest structures in San Francisco was two blocks south on 16th Street - Mission Dolores, close to the Castro section of the city - I would have altered my route a bit.) I crossed Market, took a good hill on Buchanan all the way to Haight Street.
Certainly, anyone who is familiar with the hippie movement of the late 1960s has heard of the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco. I only went west to Pierce Street before I had passed about 30 minutes on my watch -- a definite sign to turn it back around. As a result, I was only in what is known as Lower Haight. The distinction between it and Upper Haight? Literally, elevation. One I wasn't quite in the mood to climb.
I did run into a pretty fair downhill to get back to Market Street, which I took all the way back to Second Street before making a right hand turn and heading south back to the Courtyard. Earlier in the run, between mile marker 2 and 3, there was a climb of approximately 150 feet - but not all at one shot!
Especially on Market Street, where the city had started to wake up a bit, I saw a lot of people looking at my Seven Hills shirt. If the web site activity picks up today, with referrals from California, Ken will know why!
MapMyRun.com put the run (link) this morning at 5.8 miles. The time on my watch was 56:34.01 for a pace of 9:45 per mile?! I'm pretty certain that at one point I forgot to restart my watch, as my legs felt a little heavy after all the mileage from the day before.
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