Rodeo beach rumble race
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A 10K in one hour should be do-able, even on hills and multiplied by 5, right? Earlier I had shelved this goal, however, given the course’s jagged profile (nearly 6000 feet of elevation gain) and my relatively low mileage for the past six months. I rekindled the notion that I could perhaps break 5 hours on the course. Their presence reminded me of how far I have come and how life becomes richer more from relationships than from money. They were all there, along with others I recognized, and I felt unexpectedly supported and energized. And, not to be taken for granted, there was Morgan, who has put up with me and loved me unconditionally for more than half my life. And Alita, who helped me stay involved with the Students Run Oakland program to coach teenagers to run a marathon, because if she could deal with all the setbacks and inconveniences of the program then so could I. And Roberta, whom I didn’t even know when she surged to my side in the 2005 Primo’s Half Marathon and murmured, “Stick with me,” and I did, and she coaxed me to a sub-1:29 PR. And Samantha, a team member on the Calistoga–Santa Cruz relay in 2003, who listened and kept me laughing while I opened up to her about personal problems. Mann, the orthopedist who diagnosed my fracture in June and reassured me that I would run again. I approached the event as a year-end run/hike in a glorious natural setting - a date with my husband, an ultra version of a walk in the park - not as a race in which I’d push the pace.īut then I saw Jim, with whom I ran my first-ever track workouts and trail runs in 1994. I went with Morgan to this low-key Pacific Coast Trail Runs event not expecting to know many people and not feeling very motivated to run hard. Morgan and me at the start of the Rodeo Beach run