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Eventually into Helen Putnam Park

August 11, 2021 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: nice, bright sun, 70ish?

Comments:
Left Carol's house around 9 something with Leah and Anna. Started into the Sunnyslope Ave to Sunnyslope Rd to I to Sunnyslope loop, but along I we took a walk for a quarter mile due to runner's curse. After a pause at McNear School, I bailed out at D Street and headed out to Windsor. Convinced myself to run into Helen Putnam Park, but then bailed at the development because I just wasn't feeling strong enough to go up that hill. AS Windsor approached Western, I saw a serpentine trail in the open field/hillside and took it. A long series of switchbacks took me all the way up the hill to the peek of the park. Well, I go there, even though I'd decided not to bother going up the hill. Ran down past the depressingly low reservoir and out onto Chileno Valley Rd. Took that to Western and home at a finally solid clip after much slow, tedious uphill running on the trails, etc. With the less than 2 miles (16min) with L and A and the slow pace up the hills (first 34 minutes to exit Putnam Park), my total run was probably between 7 and 7.5 altogether. A nice 2.7 mile walk through Muir Woods in the afternoon too.