Last Race ... of the year

Smiling before I start

an Francisco near Ocean Beach. San Francisco is a peninsula, the ocean on one side, the bay on one side, and the Golden Gate Bridge on the other side.

The start of the race

We started on a hill overlooking Ocean Beach and ran to a hill overlooking the GGB and then back. Hills, that is what we ran. Sometimes there were not hills, there were stairs! Hills were better than the stairs. This race was 10 Km, not the 5 Km I usually run and I have paid the price for doing it. All day since I completed the race I have been hurting.

The stairs

The first set of stairs I came to I tried to run at first then just walked. As I was walking the small of my back started hurting and it continued to hurt as I ran the rest of the distance.

View of the bridge as I ran

Over 200 people ran today, I was in the last 20 that finished. I really didn't care, I was just happy that I could finish.

Running in neighborhood streets

This was the first time I ran and people I knew ran also. Two people I work with showed up and I didn't know they were going to run today.

SGT Hurtado and SGT Burris ran too

It was nice meeting them before the race and seeing them as I was running. It made it more interesting for me to run.

I finished in the wrong place

When we finished they invited me to come to breakfast with them, but I was hurting so much I just wanted to go home and take a hot shower.

Waves pounding at the shore during the run

I guess this race, like each that I have done this year, is memorable and I will not forget it!