Vallejo 12 Miles

Mostly we've spent the weekend lounging around the house we're sitting, playing with the dogs, reading, napping, watching movies, and generally doing nothing. But we did head out for our scheduled 12 miles this afternoon. Out along the Vallejo waterfront, across the bridge to Mare Island, around the island, and out and back again along the water. Mare Island is a former Naval Base, now under a redevelopment plan that struck us as more hopeful than realistic. Set back somewhat from the former military housing sit rows of neat new houses in various stages of completion, mostly empty. Behind them, down still unpaved roads, we discovered the former prison and next to it, some basic training facilities - ropes to climb, logs to jump, etc. Around mile 5, we stopped and ate our energy gels (a new experiment) and drank our water, then continued on around the island before heading back toward the bridge. The day was warmer than we're used to, but we both had good energy until the last two miles, when the run devolved into an exercise of how much farther we could drag ourselves. When the nano showed 12 miles, I stopped, even though I had doubts about its accuracy. We'd been running for 2 hours, 12 minutes, and I had estimated our 12 miles to last more like 2 hours, 15 minutes. When we got back to the house, I mapped the run and discovered that at most, we may have been off by about a tenth of a mile. Good enough for me.