Brutal

A brutal long run this morning. Hot (for 5 am) and humid. Dripping with sweat was an understatement. If you had asked me during the run, I would have said I was miserable. Although I became considerably happier when I convinced Jenny and Judy to stop at the depot and get a Diet Dew. We were only 25 minutes from ending but I NEEDED MY DIET DEW! The magic elixir worked and for the last 25 minutes I was in a much better mindset. I think we would make a good commercial for them, especially since a number of non Dew drinkers have said that it really hits the spot on a long run. Judy commented that she can't even chug her beer as fast as Jenny and I chugged that Dew!

So, we were 5 minutes short, but I don't keep track of stopped time, so we are sure we had more than 3 hours "on our feet" even if it was not all running. Given how hot it was, 2:55 was damn good. Plus we had a good pace considering... 9:16 for 18.88 miles. Now it is time to enjoy the weekend!

Surprises

I got quite a few pleasant surprises yesterday or maybe it was luck.

I was going to run at 5:00 since Jenny wasn't able to run at 6:00. I realized I had better check the poll to make sure someone was running at 5:00. Luckily, I realized there was comment on the poll which was from Sandy saying she was going to the track for a speed work out. I wasn't really up for a speed work since Jenny and I are doing one on Wed. I reached Jill who was also running at 5:00 and she confirmed it was indeed a track work out. BUT she said that Christy was coming too and I probably could easily convince her to do a regular run. I thought so too since Christy is one of the biggest complainers about speed work.

That is surprise one... Christy called and said she DID WANT to do a speed work out! If I wasn't already in a prone position, I would have been floored. Then she said that Bryan would run with me at 6:00 (Surprise 2) YEAH. It felt so GOOD to move the alarm back an hour!