San Diego Weekend

This last weekend I spent the weekend in San Diego with some friends. We pretty much hung out at Mission/Pacific beaches the entire time.

Dave and I trying on some hats on the Mission Beach boardwalk.

Titanic...and the tip of the iceberg.

Picture before dinner on Saturday night - Steve, Tim, Me, Dave and Mike.

I thought this picture was funny.

Saturday night we had dinner in the Gaslamp District.

Photoshoot on a bridge.

Tim and I ran on Saturday morning - pier to pier - 5.5 miles total (but we probably walked about a mile)  - the first 3 miles were at a 7:55 min/mile pace.

Dinner Saturday night was at Joe's Crab Shack on Pacific Beach.

Sunday morning we went for another run, and then did some yoga on the beach (actually just poses :)

Sunday afternoon we walked around Seaport Village...

...and the Hotel Del Coronado.

 I flew back to Phoenix Sunday afternoon. Fun trip!

AZ Road Racers Summer Series

This summer I did 3 races (out of 5) in the AZ Road Racers Summer Series. Heather signed up for all 5, and when I saw on Facebook that she had posted pictures of the first one I asked for more details. While these were nowhere near the caliber of NY Road Runners' events, they were still good events and kept me in somewhat ok running shape through the hot Phoenix summer.

Dates, times, locations are as follows:

Race #2 - June 10, 2012 - Reach 11 Park - 24:52 (8:00 min/mile)

Race #4 - July 14, 2012 - Kiwanis Park - 25:51 (8:20 min/mile)

Race #5 - August 12, 2012 - South Mountain Park - 27:41 (8:55 min/mile)

My times got slower as the summer went on - not good, but I think it was because it just kept getting hotter and hotter and my running outside kept getting less and less. Looking forward to cooler weather to try to break an 8 minute mile :)

Summer Streets 2012

Yesterday I went to NYC for Summer Streets. I did this in 2009, 2010 and 2011 (I guess I did not blog it last year) with the same group of friends. I did not want to miss out this year so I went back for the day. My flight was supposed to leave PHX at 9:35pm on Friday night, but we were about an hour delayed so I was an hour late landing. I arrived at JFK at 6:15am on Saturday morning, and took the Air Train to Howard Beach to take the A to Foley Square where I met up with the Corpus' and Jennifer. 

Eric and Noah playing a little soccer in Foley Square

They were handing out these little applesauce packets - Micah and I both really liked them.

This was about a quarter of the way - we were in NoHo here.

At the Whole Foods picnic area at 24th Street. They are opening a Whole Foods at 57th and 2nd (they are about 4 years too late in doing this - I always had to go all the way to Union Square).

Micah was hungry before the rest of us were ready for lunch. He almost went through this entire container of Puffs.

The annual "jumping" tradition at Grand Central Station.

Noah participated this year.

Noah did great this year - he walked/rode his scooter the entire 7 miles with no complaining!

The group after lunch on the UES. Dina joined us for lunch.

We finished walking around 12:30pm and had lunch at Chipotle in my old neighborhood. Jennifer was really nice and offered to drive me to JFK so I wouldn't have to take the subway. My flight departed JFK at 4:30pm and I landed in PHX at 6:30pm. I definitely went to bed early last night. (I would have stayed the weekend, but I had signed up to do a 5k this morning (and convinced others to run) so I needed to be back for that).