This morning I met the group for a tour of the 3M half course. Last year, this was the run where it was cold and raining really hard and we were basically swimming. Today, it was nice, though. We carpooled from downtown up to the Gateway shopping center, and soon we were off. I started off with a group that was a little faster than I could comfortably go, so at the first water stop I waited a bit and fell in with a more reasonable crew. We still moved pretty quickly, but I felt all right. It was a lot of fun. We just cruised through the course, and it went by a lot faster than I expected. Once we passed the end of the half-marathon course, we cut over to Congress to get back home. That last little bit there was super-fast. It was probably one my fastest fast finishes ever on one of these runs. I knocked out some strides and joined everyone else for balance drills and stretching. My heart rate numbers were surprisingly low considering it was a pretty strong run overall. I’ll take it!
Are you okay? Haven’t seen your blog update in a while.
Yeah, I’m good. I’ve been out of town all week, and I just got back today. I’ll catch up on this stuff tomorrow. I even had something funny happen on one of my runs this week, so it’ll be worth the wait.