You know I rarely every talk about my runs or my own training but today… interesting.
I hadn’t run since my slow half on Saturday and wasn’t looking forward to it: I have been eating all I felt like and I really have a lot in my head, all good, but I am super distracted. Well, this morning was sunny and it smelled like Spring: Gotta RUN!
I was just going to attempt and fun-easy-katyperry-paced run when I see Bart Yasso was hosting at run at Super Runners Shop. Ok, I am in.
I show up and I knew half the people there, or everybody. When we took off, I decided to chase the leaders. Uhm, GREAT idea. They were going at it. This one guy was a sprinter and not even putting his heel down, and there was Kathleen too, who, omg, was flying like it was no big deal. I asked her for her PRs because I could tell… I almost fainted all I remember was her marathon: 2:44. Well, I tried to hang on. I felt heavy and sore still from my two halfs these past ten days but I did the faster 5 miles I probably ever did in the park. I kept thinking about that post I blogged about today about going out at an unsustainable pace: I’ll run at this crazy speed and then I’ll stop and cry my way back to the store. Somehow, I finished. I did think I was gonna die in the last block, but I didn’t. It was close.
Anyway, the gratuitous photo as usual:
First picture with myboyfriend Bart.
This week.
And one more, let’s see if you can spot me, who knows what was happening…
You are kicking ass out there, too. 🙂
I guess the sprinter was not wearing Hokas.
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He was. He was the young guy that was showing everybody the shoes.
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Thank you for sharing, Elizabeth!
I think you set a new blogging PR tonight and deserve a huge smear of Nutella! 🙂
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A blogging PR!!! YOU Kicked my little legs into butter-more!!! Still feeling it today! So great to run a few miles together!
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That sounds like a fun run!
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I really want to meet Bart!!!!
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He’s osom!
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