AHHHHHH!!!
If all goes well, and as planned, in 24 hours I will be a half-marathoner. I will be at the San Francisco beach celebrating with my family and team.
Even though I’ve been in San Francisco since Wednesday night, it’s only now starting to hit me that tomorrow, I am running 13.1 miles.
Holy shit!
I’m feeling a mix of motivation and dread. We are staying in SF with my mom’s college friend and her husband is a 5-time marathoner and many more half-marathoner, triathlete and a bunch of other length’ers. He keeps saying I’ll be just fine. So I know I will be.
I think my nervousness comes from the sheer size of this race. There are 10,000+ peeps running the Nike Women’s Marathon and Half, including all 56 (is that right?) chapters of the LLS Team in Training program. I have seen a lot of them about the city over the last couple of days — ladies with Team in Training t-shirts, ladies with running/race t-shits, ladies and men running around the city and ladies sight-seeing with killer leg muscles that they MUST be running this marathon. (Seriously, I have never seen so many amazingly toned quads and calves in one place before. I’m in awe.)
In the meantime, we have been doing some awesome sight-seeing. I am in love with San Francisco. Like, I want to pack my bags up and move here tomorrow, in love. Not sure why, maybe just because I’ve always had it in my head that I wanted to live here without any rhyme or reason, but I love it. Everywhere you look, there are amazing views, hills, water, bridges. It’s got a bustling NY-style financial district (downtown) area, fun-looking houses/apts and fabulous food. The only thing missing is snow and snowboarding — but Lake Tahoe is only three hours away. That’ll do I guess.
Here are a some (a very few) highlights of the touristy part of the trip so far:
The big gold bridge
Andrew and mom on Alcatraz island in front of the big gold bridge.
The coast at Muir Beach
Redwoods at Muir Woods
Fisherman's Wharf
Us atop the hill of Coit Tower
Andrew on Twin Peaks with the Bay and the city in the background
Mom and Monique (our amazing hostess) atop Twin Peaks in front of the bridge
And that’s that kids, I’m off to hit up the markets and do more sight-seeing…
Then its off to the hotel to get ready for the big race. AHHHHHHH!!
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