Week 1 10/26-11/1

It is finally here! It was a fabulous first week. We ran 135 miles ! We started our week from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. We started our run at 8 am on Monday. It was 66 degrees with a blustery 14 mile per hour wind. The Golden Gate Bridge is an amazing structure. It was built during the Great Depression in 1933. It is nearly 2 miles long.

After leaving San Francisco we headed east. We ran through the town of Escalon, California. The name Escalon is a Spanish word meaning stepping stone. It's a small town with a population of 7,132 with a lot of farming and nut processing plants. We ended the week in the small town of Chinese Camp which has a population of 126 people. Chinese Camp is a town that was settled back during the California Gold Rush. Many of it's first settlers were laborers from China. It sits at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. We can see the mountains off in the distance and they look majestic. The town let our running club set up tents and camp at the Chinese Camp Elementary School. It's a small school that was built to look like a Chinese Pagoda which is a type of building made up of tiered towers that you see in Asia. Here is a picture of the Chinese Camp Elementary School.