getting lost while running

I have lots of athletic friends, who used to always tell me they where going on a short run, then 1.5 hours later, come back, and claim they'd gotten lost, so they'd done like 7 miles instead of 3. And I thought to myself wow, they are dumb, and that would never happen to me. I would often go for a short run, and think I'd done longer than expected, then find I'd only run like 1.5 miles. woo hoo.

But Sunday I went running in San Francisco, and almost had a moment like that! I managed to get myself lost running around a park, and went the wrong direction, got lost, and didn't even know the address of where I was trying to get to. Eventually I figured out I'd come into the park from a different direction than I'd thought, and found my way home. Though I didn't end up doing a crazy 8 miles, like you stupid athletic people (Abby... Hannah... ) I did do 4.5 miles instead of 3. Which is good enough for me :)

Miles since Kickoff:
Bike: 72 miles
Swim: 13800 yds
Run: 67.2 miles