Sunday, October 01, 2006

Bridge To Bridge Run 2006

The annual Bridge To Bridge Run is perhaps the best all-around race of the year. From the Bay Bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge, this 12K race winds along the beautiful coast of the San Francisco Bay. The weather is crisp and cool, the scenery is incomparable, and the 9:30 AM start time means not having to get up so early. Runner's World magazine loves this race too!

A hi-carb, high-protein meal (chicken, meatloaf, potatoes, and a liter of dark beer) the night before helped give me the juice to finish the 12K in an hour and two minutes. Could I have finished in under an hour by consuming less (or more) beer? Further experimentation is needed ...

Running is easy!  Thrust with right leg, raise left leg ... ... Thrust with left leg, raise right leg ... repeat ...
What's this 'crown' on my head? Geese fly in a v-formation, why not RUN in a v-formation?  FreeThinker takes the lead ...

2 comments:

TOR Hershman said...

More beer, that's the ticket.

Stay on Groovin' Safari,
TOR

Vancouver Voyeur said...

Yes, experiment a little with the amount of beer, maybe even the type. Sounds like a gorgeous place to run. I've recently found my brother after 20 years (long story) and he's living at the end of some bridge between San Fran and Oakland. He's on the Oakland side. Was that one of the bridges you ran to/from?