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Mother's Day Run

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A number of months ago, some friends and I decided to sign up for the 8km  Mother's Day classic  run in Sydney, as an incentive to get more fit while also for a good cause. Unfortunately for me, later I found I had to return to California for work for the two weeks around the event, but as 8:10am Sunday (the start time for the Sydney event) was 3:10pm Saturday California time, it seemed appropriate to still compete! You can see above my approximate view for most of the trek - I followed the San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail, which seems to be a pedestrian/cycleway that simple follows the creek, and there were a few cyclists/roller-bladers/runners out at the time. I started where it intersected Old Mountain View-Alviso Rd ( here ) and simply followed it until it reached Central Expressway - which a distance calculator gave me as  around 4.3km - then turned around and went back. The first thing I noticed when planning the route was that it went past 'California's Great