New PR!!!

Today was the Hannah Pote 5K. For the past two years I have run 28:04. At the time of the first one, that was a PR. I had since done 27:58 at Lake Lowndes. Today, however I smashed both of those with a PR setting 26:45!!! It helps that the course is really flat. I tried to run with a costume, but it was too windy to keep the halo on. Marc was back after a few weeks off and he still beat me so I guess everything is back to normal. We both got third in our age groups.

Training is going great. We are meeting a lot of people who have done and are doing Memphis. Everyone says it's a great race. Only a month to go!

Trying Something New

Today was the first long run of the new training season. 7 miles. We are trying a new plan this time, so today was down for 6-7, but yesterday was supposed to be 3-4 and I ran 0. So... it's good that today was 7. Marc is on a 3 week hiatus out seeing the U.S., so left to my own I have just mixed all of it up. Wednesday I went running at 5 PM instead of 5 AM! And I ran with some people from work. I don't like to run with new people because I'm always worried about keeping up. This is why, even though I've known about Boardtown Runners since I started running, I haven't been. But faced with 7 miles in the dark, I decided it was time to give it a try. I know many of the people who are regulars there, but I just didn't want to go. Today was different.

What a great time! My friend Seth and I had a delightful run - not too fast and not too slow. Everyone is really nice and really friendly, and even though there are some extremely fit and fast runners, there are a lot of folks just out for fun (I assume... they were far far ahead). When it's over there's a big pot luck breakfast, which completely obliterates all the good you did for yourself running. What's not to love?