Crystal Springs

One of the best places to run nearby is at Sawyer’s Camp trail (right on the San Andreas fault) at Crystal Springs. It is beautiful,  has mile markers (even half mile markers!), bathrooms, and is 6 miles long so you can easily do a 12 mile run.  I used to run there last year while training for the nike half marathon, but that was always on my own.

This trail is a regular location for the TNT ‘on your own (OYO)’ runs which are mentor led runs every other weekend when we don’t have a coaches run.  We went on a run there recently, and while I knew the run very well it made such a difference running with others.

map of crystal springs run

This time we ran for 6 miles, and instead of doing intervals by time we did 0.5 mile intervals – running for 0.5 miles then walking a minute.

We did 6 miles (my Garmin sometimes gets the distance wrong!) in around 1:10 – here are the stats:

and pacing..

We seem to be going around 10 – 11:30 minute pace while running (apart from a little sprint at the end!), and around 20 minute pace for the walks. Certainly not breaking any world records – but at this stage in the training it feels good to be out there getting the miles in!