Wednesday

20 laps, 2:3 minute run/walk ratio, 34:11 minutes

I'm back! And had a pretty good run this morning. Miscounted and ended up doing 20 laps; it would have been 32:33 for 19. A bit slower than my best, but, after being off for a week on account of being horribly sick, I think 32:33 is pretty good.

It was nice and cool out this morning. The ground was a bit wet, but not sloppy or slippery. It felt good to be running (and walking) again, but I can feel that I'm a bit worn out. I've decided to push my schedule back and do the nine-mile run this weekend. I don't think I could handle twenty. It will be fun to run 23 miles in San Francisco. I'll have to look up my old runs and plan a route. Probably twice around the park, including Stowe Lake, and once up and down Great Highway to Sloat will do it, but I'll have to remind myself the mileage on various bits. I think it was three and a half miles from one end of the park to the other, so seven miles round trip. Plus one mile for each loop around Stowe Lake. But I don't remember how many miles it is from JFK down Great Highway to Sloat.

I imagine the AIDS Marathoners will be running in the park that day, too. I wonder what their mileage will be? If they're doing 23 miles that day, too, I might ask if I can run with them, as a three-time AIDS Marathon alumni, even though I'm not doing the AIDS Marathon this year.