So I'm not a huge Giants fan. Yes, they're the SF home team, have a great ball park (okay it is super nice), and are relaxing to watch - but I'm from the Boston area and a Red Sox fan for life. But when I saw that there was a race that ended on home plate at AT&T AND had pace groups, I was in. I left my house at 6:30AM to walk to South Beach to get to the gear check 30 min before the race started. I made it 4 blocks before I had to strip off my jacket and long sleeves, wow is it this hot already? I'm not even running yet, oh Christ.
I arrive, find my pace leaders, and we're off! The course took us down Embarcadero, through the wharf, and to Fort Mason. Oh Fort Mason - your killer hill is in about 90% of the races I have done in our little 7x7 city. At this point, we're at mile 6. I'm in the 1:50 pace group and I'm the last woman in the group too. And I'm doing okay. Then we charged up that hill... I never recovered. Once we went up that hill, I felt like I was going to die in the heat & sun. By the way I was in Under Armour Capri running pants. At mile 7's water stop, I realized I had a decision to make. I could fight the next series of hills with these guys (which I wanted to so bad, since I was the last female standing and wanted to hold my own) or I could enjoy the race I had been looking forward to for weeks and accept there would be no PR today. Because I've never run through North Beach, and I wanted to enjoy the course through Grant, Columbus, and Broadway streets, so that's what I did. I came in at 1:55:03. That placed me at 15/141 for women 25-29, 70/639 for women overall, and 257/1274 total overall.
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