Fleet Week/Fleet of Feet??

I love working from home, but during Fleet Week I wish I still had an office in the City.....I miss hearing the roar of jet engines and watching the incredible aerial stunts of the Blue Angels. When I worked in the City, I used to take an extra long lunch with my peeps, grabbed a beer and burger from Red's Java House and sit along the Embarcaderos with a front row seat to the Blue Angels practice session.

Despite the obvious display of military might, my admiration of the pilots and hardware lie elsewhere. Its simply based upon the years of mental and physical training that these guys have to go through to fly with such precision and to control such awesome machinery. Flying at Mach 2 with 8gs would make me turn into a lovely shade of green (not the envy kind).

Speaking of mental and physical preparation, its the two week countdown to Nike! All the pre-race hoopla is getting me psyched for the big event. After last Saturday, I am to start tapering off my miles, so its 8-10 miles tomorrow. If my energy starts to lapse, I'll try to imagine the power of the jets and the astonishing speeds being flown. Its these little mental games that keep my body going when it just wants to sit down and sip a latte.

Forces of Nature in the City

This past Saturday was my longest run yet and it was definitely the toughest! San Francisco is an inspiring place to run. Its beauty is awesome!



Although I live in the 'burbs, I'm still a City gal at heart and spirit. I really enjoyed the first ten miles, which was a roundtrip from Crissy Field to the Embarcaderos and back. The last 7.5 miles were the most difficult of the entire 18.5 miles that I ran. Those last miles included a lot of trail running through the Presidio to Fort Baker and back. Once I started on those Presido trails, all I could think about was, yikes--"ticks, poison oak, mud (getting my shoes and sweaty self muddy) and rattlesnakes". Okay, so the climate wasn't conducive to rattlers---but there was a lot rustling in the bushes...Juraissic Park perhaps?? I'd take a T-Rex any day over a rattlesnake.

Despite being mud-splattered and taking one wrong turn, this was my best run yet. I incorporated a little Galloway (run 8 minutes, walk 1 minute) and my post race recovery has been way less painful than my earlier runs. I also switched my sports drink to Accelerade which settles in my system better than other drinks I've tried.

Go Team!