Day 1 in San Francisco was definitely fun! The day started off early as Jen and I both woke up around 5:00 AM right off of these roads that are very bike friendly. I had to go to work, and my goal for the day was to get to work around 7:00 AM, work through lunch, and finish up shortly after that. That's just what I did! When I got back to our hotel, I picked up Jennifer, and we were off on our journey! Our hotel was located at the Berkeley Marina right outside Cal University, and also situated right on the San Francisco Bay. Actually when you look outside our hotel room, you can see the Golden Gate across the bay. Very cool!!!


So our trip today set off form Berkeley across the Bay Bridge. We wondered if they ever held a race over the bridge, because that sucker is huge. We clocked it at close to 4 miles from end to end. So by now both Jen and I were starving, and headed over to this little town on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge called Sausalito. I've been here before, and love how quiet and quaint the town can get. After walking around in search for a good lunch stop, we came upon this little bakery and cafe. It was awesome sitting close to the water outside the cafe, and oh yeah, the food was awesome.
After lunch we walked around and just had to stop here! Ice Cream straight from Hawaii. It had to be a good omen right as we're training like mad for Lake Placid. I decided to go on the light side and substituted ice cream for a yogurt cone. It was still very good!

After Sausalito we drove along some local roads and up to the golden gate lookout. It was Jen's first time up here, and is by far still one of my favorite scenic lookouts I've ever been to.


If you keep driving up the the mountain, you eventually come to the other side, and can go all the way down to the coast. The roads as you can see are very windy. I was wishing that I had my bike.
After our car tour, it was time to see San Francisco at a little faster pace. We drove south along the coast and through the city until we came to the entrance to Golden Gate State Park. We parked the rental car, changed into our running clothes, and went on a very relaxing 40 minute jog. We ran past a old Chinese Pavilion, saw some amazing birds flying overhead, and even saw some very interesting people. The hippies! They must all gather in one centralized spot within the park in this small open field. We ran through that area rather quick mainly because they were all smoking (and not always cigarettes). We then ran past the conservatory and rose garden. We looked at our watches, and couldn't believe we are already done with our 40 minute jog. Time really does fly when you're having fun. After the run we headed back to our hotel. We drove up to the Berkeley campus in search of some good food. We decided to eat at this really cool sushi bar. The food was reasonably priced, and tasted good as always. We walked around near the campus and decided to call it a night.


By now both of us were still on East Coast time, and even though it was only 9:00 PM PST, it was past our bed time. We drove back to the hotel and called it a night.