Summer Breeze Half Marathon

If this is a half marathon why does my Runkeeper show 21.22 miles!?  Ohhh.. that's right.  Marathon training.  The Summer Breeze half marathon is only 13.1 miles and according to our marathon training schedule we needed to run 20 miles today.

Amanda and I headed down to Hayward last night to pick up our Summer Breeze race bibs for today's race.  We had dinner at the Golden Lotus, a vegetarian Thai style restaurant in Oakland.  I had a delicious jalapeno tofu, we shared some soup and I hardly made a dent in the rice- over ordered!

Early bed for us since we had to be up before 5:00am!  We got down to the race start, parked right up front and there was hardly anyone there- because we were 2 hours early!  We figured we'd run 4 miles out and back before the half marathon to add 8 miles on top of the 13 for the half marathon.  That way we had food and drink stops along the route for our "last" 13 miles.  It worked out wonderfully!  Trisha and Jeff were there for the race too, and Trisha was still running even though she had a broken arm!  She was in a different group but on her way back Jeff, Amanda and I ran into her on the route and we got this great picture!  Love my street team!