Weekend run and ride

Saturday morning was taken up with househunting, so I had to do my run in the evening. Surprisingly, I felt great on the run and clipped along at a pretty good pace. I was supposed to run 65 minutes, but I was ending my run at the climbing gym and didn't time it quite right. I ended up getting there in around 60 minutes and since it's not a great area I opted to cut it short rather than draw attention to myself running around the neighborhood to kill time on the clock. Met Kyle and climbed around for a few minutes (literally just a few minutes) before the gym closed.

Sunday morning, Kyle and I drove to the North Berkeley BART station with our bikes, left the car, and set out for the Lafayette station. The ride was really divided into two parts-- part 1 was meandering around really steep neighborhoods in Berkeley and El Cerrito to get to the main road for our ride, part 2 was the real ride on San Pablo Dam Road to Bear Creek to Happy Valley. I was supposed to ride 2 hours and 15 minutes, but the ride we planned was only 25 miles so I assumed I'd come up short. Um, actually it took us 2 hours and 8 minutes. How were you riding that ridiculously slow, you ask?!? See below:



That's some gnarly elevation. At one point going up a huge hill, I realized that I couldn't go any faster, but since I was going so slow, I could manage to take out the camera while riding.



I even got a couple videos, pardon the heavy breathing!



Despite that it was hilly and hot, it was a gorgeous and fun ride.





And eventually we made it to BART in Lafayette to catch a ride back to Berkeley.