Just Another Workout

Tonight I went to the U2 concert in Oakland with Katie and some people from her work. On the way back, our bus had to stop in the middle of the Bay Bridge (just after Treasure Island) due to construction at the end of the bridge. After about 20 minutes of sitting around, literally not moving at all, we noticed other people getting out of there cars and walking around. People on our bus started to get off the bus as well, so Katie and I decided to get our workout in right there and run the rest of the way home (note that this was after a few beers before and during the concert, so our reasoning wasn't exactly logical). We figured when else would we have a chance to run across the Bay Bridge... so we get off the bus, start running and make it near the end of the bridge when we see what has been holding up the traffic... a police car parked diagonally in the middle of the road. We start to go towards the police officer to ask him if we can just run off the next exit, but he yells at everyone to get back in their cars. Of course our "car" is about a mile and a half back, so we start heading back to the bus, hoping to make it before the traffic starts moving. As we're running back, traffic begins to move, so we knock on the first car that we think would let us in and ask them if they'd be willing to just drop us off at the first exit. Luckily they were nice enough to let us in along with two other people who had the same dumb idea to run across the bridge and they dropped us off at the first exit where we then took a cab the rest of the way. Not the ideal workout, but we probably got a total of two miles in and we can now say that we ran on the Bay Bridge.
PS The concert was incredible, definitely one of the best concerts I have ever been to!
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