Touch the Balls

Time: 85:07
Distance: 13 miles

Owen and Jilane came to pick me up in Palm Springs this morning and we drove to sunny San Diego. I guess you could call this the first leg of our marathon trip from California to Oklahoma. Our first destination was to the house of a former teammate Ryan Graddy. Once we arrived in Torrey Pines/Del Mar/some other random place Graddy calls home, our friend was kind enough to drive us down the monster hill to the beach. We started our run from near the Torrey Pines State Reserve. See Owen's blog post for more information b/c he's all fancy with pictures and such
Our run took us along the coast a bit and eventually ended up on the UCSD campus. We ran to "the balls" which were outside one of the buildings near Dr. Seuss' spaceship. The final stretch before the turn around point was through what looked to be the frat/sorority recruitment day. Students were handing out fliers while other tents were serving food. They most certainly enjoyed our shirtless hot bods glistening with sweat. We took a slightly different way back that took us to the track. I attempted to get Owen to "cut a few shapes" with me but he didn't bite. We got back to the parking lot around 70 minutes, dropped Graddy off at the car and then added on in the opposite direction along some railroad tracks. Owen wanted to touch the Pacific Ocean so we traversed down a cliff and ran back along the beach.

Overall it was a great run. I enjoyed running with former teammates from Brown. We always have a great time talking about the coming seasons and who is going to run well. My legs felt pretty good and the cold is coming along.