Six miles

Today, I woke up at 4:30 in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep. I got up at quarter to six, knowing there was no point in lying in bed awake any longer. I wasted as much time as I could getting ready, but I ended up leaving early and catching the Point Lobos bus instead of the Ocean Beach bus (which terminates about eight blocks closer to our gathering place in Golden Gate Park), and arriving at 48th Avenue and Point Lobos at 7:30 am—a full half hour early for the morning run.

Since I had some extra time, I decided to wander through the little park at the end of the bus line. Whoa! What from the back side looked like a pleasant little plot of grass and trees and trails, from the ocean side turned out to be a stunningly gorgeous cliff-top overlook of the ocean. I stood in the bright morning fresh air looking out on the breaking waves, thinking how lucky I was to stumble onto such a beautiful scene.

That delightful little spot, I discovered on my way out, is Sutro Heights Park. I'm very happy to have found it.

The run itself went really well today. We ran six miles—four and a half miles along the Great Highway, and then another mile and a half within the park along Martin Luther King Drive. Six miles! Another mile closer to the goal.