I went out for a run before today’s ARC meeting. I drove down to the meeting ahead of time and ran down to the MoPac stretching area. I was trying to get there at 6pm to join up with friends, but I saw them leave just before I got there; naturally, I tried to run really quickly to catch up with them. It took me thirteen minutes flat to get there, but they still beat me. Unfortunately, my Garmin hadn’t syncd up and I didn’t know how fast I was going.

After doing a little light stretching and chatting, we went back to Lucy’s Boatyard at a 9:30 pace. It took me 29:30 for the round trip. I don’t have my records in front of me, but assuming the 9:30 pace was approximately correct, that gives a distance of 1.74 miles which sounds about right. That means that my trek down was done at a 7:30 clip.

The cool thing is that even with no warmup and no pre-run stretching, I felt really great the whole time. My leg was a tiny bit tight, but it didn’t bother me after the first couple of minutes (and yes, I stretched it out at the halfway point). I’m feeling pumped about Sunday now.

Oh, and the meeting? Too fun. I got to meet a lot of people, drink some beer, and listen to Greg McMillan talk about training. That’s a pretty cool way to spend an evening.

Days like today, I love being a runner.

EDIT: It looks like the distance was more like 1.65 miles, but I’d misremembered my total running time which was 28:32. That gives me 7:53 for the trip down (more reasonable, since I was doing comfortable 3/2 breathing and not really pushing myself that hard) and 9:25 for the trip back. Just for the record. Not that anyone else really cares.

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