So I did indeed manage to arrive at Golden Gate Park 7:30AM on a Saturday on a few hours of shuteye and a bottle of energy drink. Unfortunately I wandered around all aimless and aggravated and sleep deprived trying to find our group for the first fifteen minutes or so, so I missed the introductory stuff, meeting the other runners, any stretching activities, etc.
Victoria and I finally found the group just as they were getting started, and off we ran into the cold foggy park, timing our "intervals". See, the idea is that you break up your run into short periods of both running and walking. Yeah, it sounds like the lazy man's running to me too, but Robert insists its the best way to run, and there's a whole article in the NY Times about it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/health/02well.html
So how did it go? Well, we did 2 minutes walking, 2 minutes running for maybe forty minutes tops, followed by twenty minutes of "brisk walking". When we saw the bison in the park, that kind of derailed our focus, so we ended up just heading home to get ready for a wine country trip and Robert called me a few hours later to make sure I wasn't passed out in a corner of the park somewhere. My feet were sore which probably means my shoes aren't the best. It was tiring, but not bikram yoga tiring. I'm a little meh on the whole experience as I didn't really feel like i was accomplishing anything - except finding the bison paddock.
I'm going to try a few morning runs on my own this week now that I've finally started, and we'll see how it goes...
Bison!
Random Waterfall!
Victoria the Marathon Queen (she ran it in just over 2 hours last year)
