Friday, June 28, 2002

Week Four

I'm going to be busy with Pride stuff all this weekend (including marching in the San Francisco Pride Parade with the AIDS Marathon contingent on Sunday!), so I did my long run on my own this morning. The group is up to six miles this week; I did about ten and a half—my usual loop to the ocean and back through Golden Gate Park. I felt a little tired today—probably from working out yesterday, so that I didn't have as much time to recuperate as I really needed—but still finished in my usual two and a half hours, or about 14:15 minutes per mile.

It was odd to see cars on JFK Drive—on Sundays, when I usually run, JFK Drive is closed to traffic, and the street is full of walkers and runners and skaters and bicyclists. It was almost like running in a different park.

I saw some kind of falcon or hawk sitting on the fence of the bison paddock as I ran by. I think it was a peregrine, if I remember my raptor birds correctly. I don't think I've ever seen one in the park before.

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