The arrival of 2008 was celebrated with freshly fried homemade donuts. Donuts with maple frosting. Donuts with cinnamon. Donuts with chipotle chocolate frosting. Donuts with uzu-infused powdered sugar. These, along with a few glasses of Carhartt Vineyard syrah and some champagne were my pre-Resolution Run meal.
In other words, I didn’t have high expectations for the race.
But I had fun. Elda and I started more casually than our average training run. But as we warmed up, we kept accelerating. I think mile 1 was nearly 9 minutes; mile 2 was 8 minutes and mile 3 was just over 7 minutes. Elda then ran a 50-minute 10K, putting us lazy 5K only runners to shame.
Great race. Great weather. Great volunteers, including my housemate. Great to have a T-shirt without advertisers all over the back.
After breakfast, I headed up San Ysidro Trail with Joey. I’ve decided this is one of my favorite front-country trails. There are so many rocks along the creek to lounge on in the sun.
However, my Sunday summit of Montecito Peak was pretty phenomenal. Not only is it fun to watch hawks flying below you, it’s also calming to sit in the stillness and hear the mission bells cut through the city’s buzz below.
