{"id":43974,"date":"2025-07-28T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=43974"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:14:57","slug":"7-27-2025-the-five-timers-club-at-the-san-francisco-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=43974","title":{"rendered":"7\/27\/2025: The Five Timers Club at the San Francisco Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

It’s hillier than I remember. I say this because when folks have asked me about the San Francisco Marathon prior to yesterday, I know I’ve said, “It’s not as hilly as you’d think, given that it’s in San Francisco.” And maybe that is still true… but gosh it felt like a lot more hills this year. It may also be that I’m not in as good of shape as I was back in the day… and that I’m a by definition a bit older than I was back then.

It dawned on me last night as I recovered from the race and the long drive back to LA that this was in fact my fifth year running SF. My brother and I ran it together back in 2008 and as I tromped my way along the Embarcadero in 2025, I had flashes of that run. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find any digital photos from then — I know we took some but I suspect they may have been on a disposable film camera. That or they were sadly lost in a hard drive failure. Makes me sad not to have those pics… but I’m happy to know it happened anyway.

Over the years (2013, 2016, and the last time in 2017), I snapped a photo here and there as we would run across the Golden Gate Bridge in the first half of the race — always the highlight of the event.<\/p>\r\n

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And then there’s 2025:<\/p>\r\n

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Now I really wish I could find one of Steve and me. \u00a0There’s a box somewhere that has physical photos that may have one or two but gosh I don’t even know where that box might be. \u00a0This is why a hoarder needs a Dewey Decimal style library system. \u00a0But would it be filed under 2008? \u00a0Steven? \u00a0SF? \u00a0Marathoning? \u00a0All of the above?<\/p>\r\n

Things I’ll have to ponder. \u00a0And maybe one day I can update this post with a “new” old photo.<\/p>\r\n

***UPDATED: 11:10 AM PST ***<\/p>\r\n

Was able to find a shot of Steve and me on an old MarathonFoto archive page… watermarked as I’m too cheap to buy the thing…<\/p>\r\n

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It’s hillier than I remember. I say this because when folks have asked me about the San Francisco Marathon prior to yesterday, I know I’ve said, “It’s not as hilly as you’d think, given that it’s in San Francisco.” And maybe that is still true… but gosh it felt like a lot more hills this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43974"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44019,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43974\/revisions\/44019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}