San Francisco Half Marathon

A while ago I mentioned I was going to run another marathon. While that's not going to happen for another few months (in November in San Jose), I have been following a training plan for about a month now and yesterday I was scheduled for a 13 mile long run. My friend Steve wanted to run the San Francisco half marathon, so we both signed up. After getting up really early (4am) we drove into San Francisco and lined up to get started around 5:45am. Our goal was to run the whole thing in under 2 hours, which meant we had to run a mile pace of around 9 minutes.
The route led us along the Embarcadero, Fisherman's Wharf, through Crissy Fields and up to the Golden Gate bridge (tough climb), across the brodge to the Vista point, back over the bridge and down into Golden Gate Park where we finished after 13.1 miles. We did in slightly under 1 hour and 58 minutes. That was definitely fun although the crossing of the bridge was a very wet affair. Not exactly warm but definitely good for running. Now I am off to more training, increasing mileage on my weekend long runs and doing speedwork during the week. Hopefully I can get into a good enough shape that I can run a new PR. I am currently stuck at 3 hours 51 minutes which I ran 5 years ago. I am hoping to beat 3 hours 50 minutes and get as close as possible to 3 hours and 45 minutes. Wish me luck!