Running around Santa Monica

I think I ran about 9 miles today. I'm not entirely sure how far it was because my running group could not make our weekly run, and I usually just follow them. I especially needed Yen, who is our timer and navigator. Without her guidance, I ended up emerging out of a loopy, cliffside residential street onto San Vicente Blvd. and was nearly back to the beach before I realized I had turned in the wrong direction.

We run 7 minutes and walk 1. That's the method of the LA Leggers. I have not joined yet but plan to so I can train for the LA marathon in March. So far, I've been running with Yen and two other people who have trained with the Leggers in the past. Without Yen's interval-timer watch, and with my oxygen-deprived brain unable to do math, my pace was more like 9- or 11-minute bursts of running followed by minute breaks.

I need me one of those watches.