weekend-y

on saturday jeremy and i did the angel island trail run which was pretty fun. we did the 25k distance since neither of us had run much the previous two weeks, and it was mostly a blast.

after a confused and hectic start (the ferry captain overslept) we hit the trail in the dense fog. the course loops around the island 3 times, starting with an inner loop, and moving to progressively larger, and flatter, loops.

the weather was great, and the course -- mostly -- met our expectations, with one noteable exception. if you look at about k17 on the elevation profile below you will see a hill.

it was a bad hill; endless, steep, and there was a howling headwind; i felt really sorry for the people who were doing 50k, since the were going to have to do it again, pretty close to the end of their race.

sunday i went for a bike ride, which felt harder than usual because my legs were a little toasted from the run. fortunately i had my new heartrate monitor to play with (courtesy of craigslist), so in between trying to figure out all the functions and not crash while doing so i was semi-distracted from the fatigue in my legs.

sunday evening natalie and i bbq-ed and drank beer, then went up on the roof to watch the fireworks. i think the city moved the location of the official fireworks display, so we weren't able to see it, but there were some pretty impressive displays of what i assume were private fireworks.

on monday natlie headed off to yosemite for a week of observing ground squirrels with one of her professors, and i did chores and then headed over to marin in the afternoon to boulder for a few hours.

it was a good weekend.