Running in San Francisco (Coit Tower)

300 Pounds And Running with Pavement Runner

Last week I went to San Francisco for spring break. Most of my time there the weather was amazing. I finally got a chance to get some much-needed sun light, since I’m still battling this seasonal affect disorder. Anyways before I went to San Francisco I sent out a couple tweets calling all my San Francisco runners. I thought to myself I might as well seize the moment and I meet some cool tweeps while I’m out there.

@PavementRunner volunteered to go running with me on his lunch break since he doesn’t work far from where I’m staying. @PavementRunner is a fellow FitFluential Ambassador and he is working on my logo for the site (that should be coming out soon.) So I went down to do the lobby to do a little stretching before he came. I look into the crowd suits that were coming towards me and I see @PavementRunner running towards me. We had our formal introductions, decided a pace and went on our way. After the first block or so, I asked where we are running to? “Coit Tower it has one of the best views of the city from there, he responded. So we’re running in the middle of lunch time which resembles lunch time in NYC, crowed. We were asking each other question, having a good laugh then we come to the stairs to Coit Tower.

 300 Pounds and Running San Francisco (Coit Tower)

This is where it got real… it was about 400-500 steps to the top of Coit Tower. Whew!  It really wasn’t that bad of a climb. When we got to the top, the sight was beautiful… I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.

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Afterwards we headed back to the hotel and he headed back to work. It was an amazing run and I appreciate that @PavementRunner took his lunch time to take me running. Be sure to show him some love, follow him on twitter and check out his blog at http://pavementrunner.com/ … Tell him I told you all to stop by.

Later that day I got a text asking me if I’m available for a run the next day. ..Stop by tomorrow to find out who else I ran with while I was in San Francisco …

Until next time I’m 300 Pounds and Running

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Run After Pneumonia

Run Recap

According to my Nike Running App, It’s been 5 weeks since I ran. Well not anymore! I’m officially off of antibiotics, I can take a deep breath without hacking up a lung, I’m no longer coughing randomly, and I survived a CrossFit WOD. I think it’s time to go for a run. Yes 300 Pounds and Running is finally going running…let me bundle up and let’s go.

As I left my apartment I felt a little nervous, a little unsure, a little maybe I should wait another day or week or so …Naw! It’s time to get out there NOW and run. It’s about 40 degrees outside and I’m dress like it’s 40 below zero. Hey what can I say, I don’t want to jinx the pneumonia thing. Anyways I really wanted to start out slowly, so I did day 1 of Half Marathon Trainer Pro – Run for PINK; it consist of a 5 minutes warm up, then run 3 min/ walk 2 minutes repeat 7 times and a 5 minute cool down.

The first interval I sprinted as fast as I could, I don’t know why; I thought I was superman or something…Yeah that was a bad Idea…I remember slowing down and gasping for air, thinking to myself, “What the hell are you doing ? This is your first run since having pneumonia.” I’m super eager to get back running. However my mind and body are not on the same accord. Gee! I hate when that happens.. I took the fifth interval in order for me to find my pace. My shoulders were relaxed, I had a slight lean forward and it’s finally feeling right…Once I got into the groove, the workout was done. It was bittersweet because I was happy that I found my stride, yet sad that it took me until the end of the workout to find it… Oh well better luck next time, I’m slowly but surely getting back into the normal. I know it’s going to take some time… that’s coming from my body. However my mind wants to go out and run a 10k tomorrow; my mind got another thing coming because my body is not having that. Either way I’m glad to be running again.

Until next time I’m 300 Pounds and Running.

Written on: 12/24/12