Nimitz trail

A confluence of events had me joining the Transports group run again tonight. First, the run was on the paved Nimitz Trail, meaning I could bring Silas. Second, I ignored my alarm this morning and didn't get an AM run in, which is always my first choice. Third, Silas slept in as well, and had a late nap, meaning he was ripe for an evening out. And finally, my experiment at work went poorly today, but in the way that had me coming home early rather than late.

So I came home and loaded Si and the stroller into the car and we headed up to Tilden Park. After a while, he recognized the drive and said "Moo moo". I had to explain to him that it was too late to go to Little Farm, and that we unfortunately weren't going to see any cows. He seemed skeptical about this.

There was a thin crowd at the run tonight, and we started off by ourselves at first. I had realized that the stroller tires had been quite flat for some time, and running with newly inflated tires I was effortlessly clicking off 1:45 quarters on the marked trail. After about 1.5 miles I caught up with Phil and we slowed to a more conversational pace for the rest of the run.

This Nimitz trail is rolling with only 2 steep climbs/descents, and is marked at 1/4 or 1/2 miles for the first 4 miles. It runs along a ridge in Tilden Park, and this evening at sunset was the most beautiful run I have done out West. We had clear views of the North and West Bay, with the sun setting in the west and the full moon rising in the east above Lake Anza. As it turned out, not only did we run through a cow pasture, but we passed two horseback riders as well.


We turned around a bit before 3.5 miles to salvage the last of the light on the return, and Silas had a short nap on the way back. I'll call it 6.75 miles in 56:14. We came home to a dinner of baked eggs with cream and spinach (somehow in celebration of National Pancake Day).