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Yes, I had a SUPER weekend, but we’ll get to that later in the post.
First, let’s start with the Oakland Running Festival course preview run. Saturday morning, we all met up at the See Jane Run store in Rockridge. The Oakland Marathon had organized a 9 mile preview run of the course. It included the more “difficult” section of the full marathon that has most of the elevation. I wanted to get some extra miles in, so I arrived early and did a 5 mile run before and headed up towards the UC Berkeley campus.
The highest point of the Oakland Marathon – look at that view (and that steep decline!)
Once the run started, I decided to run with the 9:15 pace group and managed to stay towards the front of the group. Yay for me. Well, I started in the absolute back to honest and moved my way towards the front as the miles went by. I’m familiar with the route, so I knew what to expect and the elevation gain we would be facing. The last few miles I knew were relatively flat so I kicked it into another gear and finished with a couple sub 9s.
I left pretty quickly after the run because me and wifey were going to take the First Lady to the library. They have a infant and toddler reading circle. How cool is that? I made it with just enough time to shower, grab a Gatorade and head out the door. We all had a good time and went to the park afterwards for lunch and some fun in the grass. Gotta love California for time at the park in January.
Saturday night, I also decided to end the night, Cotter style. Cheers to that!
On Sunday, I decided to go out for another 14 mile run. I was hoping to get 30+ over the weekend, but I think the two 14s were a smarter play. This route was closer to home and one I was also familiar with. It is mostly flat (don’t be fooled by the chart — it’s a couple 100 feet over 4 miles). My legs felt tight, but the miles went by pretty quickly with most being low 8 minutes. I got tired the last few miles and had to walk a bit, but I was ok with it.
The first 13.1 miles was only 2 minutes slower than my Half Marathon PR.
As for the “SUPER” part of my weekend, the 49ers beat the Falcons and advanced to the Super Bowl. This is especially good since the #MilesOfShame wager was looking pretty dreadful when we were down 17-0. Michelle and I will also be hosting a Super Bowl Runner’s Wager (details to be announced this week), but I’ll also be coming up with “SOMETHING EPIC” with Amanda of MissZippy1.com since she reigns from the Baltimore area.
Did you see the final score of the Patriots/Ravens game? Everyone in BLUE on this list owes 15 miles! That’s (up to*) 465 miles. Yikes!
*Some runner’s “maxed out” at a lower distance.
Total miles for the week: 56.3 — my highest weekly total for the year.
How was your weekend?
Any ideas on what me and Mizz Zipster should wager?
Be creative!
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My weekend was awesome. Got in two great bike ride with my fiance, Angel. Started my Premarital counseling and bought her new shoes.
Nice work!!! Hubby was glued to the TV watching the games. :D
I had an action packed weekend that involved dinner with friends, a 30km run, swimming, a 30km bike and a birthday celebration. I think I need today off to recover, ha ha.
Nice miles! I’m super jealous of your running viewsand just being able to run right now. Soon enough I’ll be running again. So since I’m not running right now I guess I’ll put my #milesofshame on the bike….hehe!
I kept watching the score go higher and higher and with that my mileage did the same….I’ll save my Ravens comments to myself! Oh Tommy you did it to me again!!!
Nice miles this weekend! The Balt. marathon does course preview runs every year also–I think it’s such a great concept.
I had my first hard run/long run combo. Friday was 8 w/ 6 tempo miles, followed by 18 on Sat. I was wiped!
Congrats to the “other” Harbaugh team! So very excited for the Super Bowl! I will email you today and we can start putting our brains together!
Hmm….wager….I see tons of push-ups with kids on the back
Ohh I had a great weekend! The puppies did too :)
Great runs!! Cognrats on your successful week. I also ended my Saturday “lccotter style” with a San Sebastian Vintner’s Red (local St. Augustine winery) :)
Congratulations to your team! And on some great mileage for the weekend. Good luck in 2 weeks. I’m from So Cal, so I don’t know who I’m rooting for, but I do cheer for a good game.
Jonny was SO happy about the Ravens and the 49ers win!! I, on the other hand, don’t care. haha
Well as you can imagine I am already trying to figure out which day I will do my 15. WHY PATRIOTS WHY???? Super mileage this weekend! It looks like you had a great weekend.
I owe you 4 miles, ran them this morning (ran 7.1 but 4 of those miles are all yours).
Are you going to host another “put your running shoes where your mouth is”? If so, I pick the 9-er’s to win.
What a great running weekend you had!!!!! And congrats on your team winning (ahem) – I’ll be thinking of you as I run my 15. As for Super Bowl, as a fan of Charity Miles, I’d encourage you and Zippy to wager something so that the winner’s favorite cause gets people to run some CM on their behalf. http://www.charitymiles.org!
Cannot believe I missed out on your Miles of Shame. Running and football – that’s my heaven. I’ll have to make sure to catch the SP bet.
I’m very happy with both wins this weekend. Can’t wait to see what you and Miss Zippy put together for the Super Bowl!
sounds great! my weekend was very relaxing, spent a lot of time with family!
I had a great weekend too! Some swimming and running, but also some movies and dinner out! Plus wine tasting with the hubby on a bonus day off yesterday!