Nimitz trail

Sunday, 5.25 miles with Silas, untimed

We all headed up to Tilden Park to walk and run the Nimitz Trail; Christine was walking the dog with a friend who is visiting, but I promised Silas that I'd get him at least 2 miles down the trail to see the cows.

We set out at what turned out to be a brisk pace on the early hills, but I was really feeling yesterday's 16 miler in my hamstrings and flexors (or adductors?) I worked to slow the pace and watched the mile markers. We came to the first cattle gate at mile 2, but no cows yet. Moving through the rolling hills and through a couple more cattle gates, we finally found them grazing around the 2.75 mile marker. I pointed a couple cows out to Silas but realized that he'd get a better look on the way back. We turned around at the 3.5 marker (27:21, but I accidentally stopped my watch), then took a short break when we got back to the cows. Silas was pretty stoked to see them: "eating grass", "having milchie", "sleeping", and "making poop poop". We continued running until we met up with our peeps, then walked it back in.

42 miles this week; I could have pushed it today to hit my goal of 44, but I am satisfied with what I've got, with two especially good runs this week. Tomorrow morning, I'm hoping to see Jupiter on my run.