[10/21/07] Nike Half Marathon
Eunji, Lena, and I decided to run the half marathon. Luckily we signed up for it early because it sold out in 10 hours. Windy was pretty sad about that because she also wanted to run but ended up being too busy at work to remember to sign up. I didn't really hardcore train for the marathon so I was a bit nervous about running 13.1 miles. The three of us actually went to the Club SF training run the Saturday before hand and ran about 8 miles. I ran the whole thing and was super proud of myself but I started to feel like I was getting blisters near the end.
The night before the race me and Erik headed over to Eunji and Tim's place. I had a lot of stuff going on so I completely forgot my running shoes and only realized once we got to SF. I was completely freaked out because I only had regular street shoes but luckily enough Lena had an extra pair of running shoes at Brent's. Eunji made pasta for us while Erik tried to make an avatar of me. We probably spent about 20 minutes trying to figure out how to make her look like me but in the end it still didn't quite look exactly right. Vi and Desmond made Eunji's look exactly like her.
The morning of the race me and Eunji woke up at 530 am to start getting ready. Once we got to Union Square around 6:40 it was already packed full of people. We tried to line up with the pace group that was going 10-12 minute miles but I think we were in the wrong section. We ended up having to pass up a lot of people while we were running, which got really annoying but I was great at finding pockets and dodging people to get ahead. Me and Eunji lost Lena at the first hill which was around mile 3. The rest of the run wasn't really that bad and after mile 6 we were at Golden Gate Bridge and that's when it started getting really hilly. We just decided it would be best to walk up the hills. Running downhill past Cliff House was really pretty trippy because we were running straight downhill and almost into the ocean. Tim and Erik couldn't figure out where the finish line was and I had no clue either. Around mile 12 Eunji ended up hurting her ankle and just started walking so I tried to sprint the rest of the way to the finish line to make my goal of 2 hours and 30 minutes. At the last 100 feet before the finish line I started getting the runners high and felt all light headed and couldn't feel my feet. Haha I think I wasn't getting enough oxygen to my brain.
Afterwards we finally met up with the guys and grabbed all our stuff while sipping on Jamba Juice and eating yogurt and granola. My feet didn't really hurt that much but I was limping around for a bit heheh.
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Around
Pier 39 and probably at mile 3 |
Eunji
running |
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Pose
together now |
Yayyy
we actually completed the half marathon |
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All
of us together at the finish line watching other people cross |
The
finish line |
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My
baby made a glitter sign for me =D |
Me
pointing to my name on the Nike wall |
[10/15/07] Random Catch up
I haven't been doing anything that exciting lately so I haven't really felt like blogging. I'm still hitting up Cal football games for the home games. This past Saturday's game was such a heartbreak ... ehh I should be used to the football team choking under pressure like they normally do. I've been mostly hanging out with the bf on the weekends watching football with him and being lazy heheh. I ran with the SF Club Nike group on Saturday with Eunji and Lena. I actually ran 7.5 miles without stopping yayyy me. Near the end my leg muscles starting getting really tight and I felt like I was going to get blisters. I am kind of sad that I didn't decide to attend more of the events ... oh well next year when I live closer. The race is next Sunday and I'm hoping I can hang the last couple miles.
Erik and I went hiking in San Jose on Sunday morning. We even decided to run parts of it. Man my legs were soo sore that I couldn't even run up the hilly parts even if I wanted to. To treat ourselves for a job well done we hit up Cafe Delatti in Los Gatos for some fake Pinkberry. It's my secret habit hehe too bad there isn't one closer or I would go all the time. My love is plain yogurt with strawberry, kiwi, and mochi toppings. Ahhhh I could eat that all day long. I've even converted Erik hehe.