From time to time, we would go back here to run again.
The shoreline park, which was our origin of running. Everything about
running started here.
I could still remember how I finished my first 3 miles in shaking legs
and begging for air in this trail and couldn't barely walk for the rest of the week.
This is one of my favorite spot to run in bay area.
In order to take our legs out of back-to-back weekend's trail run, we
decided to come back here again, just to relax, enjoyed the sun, fresh air ,
and of course, the amazing scenery.
It was hard to imagine this park was built on tons of trash. Now, it is a paradise for wild life
and of course the runners.
Took off
Our starting point was actually north-west of the shoreline park, it should be called:
Palo Alto Bayland Park. The parking was much easier here than it was in the Shoreline Park.
I guess that's the only reason we started from here..
It was early May, there were still some flowers along side of the trail. After June, it will be all dry and yellow, plus, there was no where to hide from the sun here. Unless you are trying to do some heat training, I'll think twice if I want to come here in summer.
Somehow, there were not too many birds today, it was unusually quiet. I guessed sometime back in winter, there were thousands of birds here, and it was so noisy that you needed to talk louder to hear each other.
When you saw this bridge, it was about 2 miles.
Our routine route was from park lot on San Antonio Rd, went around the Palo Alto airport
and back. Total about 9 miles. All flat road, no ups and downs. The only thing needed to worry about was bird dumps. Sometimes, they would cover the whole road and you needed to be very careful of your steps.
Bay view
the pole array, I wonder what they are used for.
turn right headed to natural center.
Airport.
Started from here, there was all paved road. We needed to run on the road side until
we passed the golf court. Most of the time, there were very few cars on the road, it was pretty safe.
golf court
Because of I was busy taking photos, I didn't notice I was left far behind. This kind of stop-and-chase felt like I was doing some tempo run. It was definitely not easy at all.
In the end, I had to shout and called the guys to wait for me.. Ha ha...what a shame.
The goose and the chicks.
Athlete Center
There was a bike trail head at the corner of the Athlete center Parking lot.
From here, we could go around the golf court and the air port.
golf court was on the right.
passed the airport.
another side of the airport.
Natural Center
the board walk stretched into the bay.
Kai arrived.
don't know what they were talking about.
old boat house.
return to parking lot.
Kai finished.
Summary:
After the run, we decided to go to McDonald for breakfast. Well, not very tasty though.
I guess Subway was better . Next weekend will be ING bay-to-breaker. I'll see if we could still mange to do a trail on Saturday since Kai didn't register this year...
I prepared some funny hat to wear this year, it should be fun!!
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