Sunday, September 4, 2011

Epic Run

I did my first point to point training run yesterday with Brian and Elena.  Brian and I met at 5:45 at the Huntington Beach pier to drop off my car and drive back to our start where we met Elena.  The plan was to run a little more than 17 miles along the Santa Ana River Trail which would come out at the ocean.  From there we were going to run along the beach for the final three miles to get to my car.  The weather was great.  We missed a crossing a river crossing early on and had to run around a golf course on city streets and sidewalks, including a run down Memory Lane.  We had a great run until around mile 16 or 17 when we realized we had made a wrong turn and had to run back for about a mile.  This was tough for all of us mentally, since nobody wants to have to run farther when you are already running 20 miles.  We did end up running 20 but we walked the three miles back to my car.  I did fizz out a bit mentally at the end which could have been a combination of running out of salt pills early on and the demoralizing turnaround.  Either way we had a great time and a fantastic training run.