Date/Time: June 7th at 6:45am
Place: lakefront; 76˚ and 85% humidity
Mileage: 8
Time It Took: 1:44:45 (includes several water stops)
Pace: 13:05
Miles this week: 11.1
Miles this month: 11.1
2008 Goal: 388.67/1000 miles
Thoughts/Comments: Well this run wasn’t so bad, considering my lazy-funk I’ve been in and haven’t run since Monday! Also, it was hottttttt. 70+ degrees is already pretty warm for running, but that humidity was AWFUL! Anyway, enough about that…
Today was the first time I ran with my new group, even though they've been running for about a month now. Despite searching for any excuse in the world that would keep me away, I couldn’t find one. Jada and Zoe slept all night and didn’t wake up before I left. It wasn’t pouring down rain. My legs felt fresh…so off I went to meet a new set of running friends.
They were pretty cool. Just about everyone lives on the south side like me…everyone but a few people are black, which in the running world, well sometimes you feel like you’re one of “the few, the proud” when you’re out there running on the north side. We chatted about lots of things, including Obama, what if Chicago gets the Olympics, which races we’re running this year in addition to the marathon, etc…
And the best thing about it is when I got home and took a nice cold shower I thought to myself…”maybe I’ll go out for a quick run tomorrow morning.” I think after two weeks of lackadaisical running, I’m feeling up to it again.
1 comment:
Glad to hear you are enjoying the new group... despite the fact that I'd love to have a buddy when I start CARA (big, scary, CARA!).
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