I spent this weekend in the Olympic Valley near Lake Tahoe with friends. I have been there a couple of times before, I really love it! We chilled near Lake Donner all day Saturday, a lot of time for reading and thinking and especially for doing nothing, I really needed such a day. I felt ok wearing my bikini, the hard workout is definitely paying off :)
I went for a short 5.5 mile run Sunday morning to make up for Saturday night’s Tapas and wine, it was such a beautiful run along a river – except that I totally underestimated how cold it is in the mountains at 6.45 am in the morning! My car measured 35 °F (2 °C). The first 10 minutes into my run, I thought I will freeze to death (I was only wearing a shirt and shorts…). The trail was very scenic and the answers to a couple of important questions I am trying address in my life at the moment suddenly became crystal clear. I was a bit nervous though because I ran by myself (everybody else was still in bed…just like a normal person on a Sunday morning) and there are many bears in the area. Last summer when I was in Tahoe, we were out on our balcony watching a bear that was just standing next to my car…they are definitely around! Luckily, I didn’t meet a bear this weekend! I also swam 20 minutes in the Donner Lake; I really couldn’t swim any longer because it was it was FREEZING cold (60° F/15° C).
Today, back in San Francisco, I went for another 8 mile run to the Bridge, I am panicking a little since the half marathon is coming up soon…It took me 1:20h (6 miles/h pace), I most likely run another 2:20h finishing time even though I wanted to be faster…but I decided to see this race as a simple training run for the marathon in October, because after all, I didn’t really train that hard for this race.
I went to a bar method class tonight, it was great because we were only 5 people. As a consequence, we all got a lot of attention, the class was hard but we all got a lot out of it. Tomorrow morning the new Basic Training session starts – yay, can’t wait!
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