The other day I got a call from my girlfriend. You know, a girl that's a friend? She was hoping I would come over to her house, while her baby was sleeping, and help her with some music stuff. Problem: Mark had my van and his car was broken. Solution: run to her house! :) According to my Hal Higdon Marathon Training Schedule I was supposed to run 6 miles that day, her house was 3.5 miles away and I needed to do 2 miles of a timed run according to my coach. Now, I know this isn't exactly what Hal intended when he said to run 6 miles, but, hey...how cool is it to run to somebody's house out of necessity? Pretty cool! I guessed how long it would take me to run there and headed out. 1st mile - rough, felt pretty sore, stopped and stretched my calves. 2nd mile - felt a little better. 3rd mile - felt MUCH better and ran it at a 9:30 pace. Ran the last 1/2 mile to Kristi's house and felt very proud.
After helping with her music I keyed up the ipod, turned my gps watch back on and headed home. I felt GREAT! I ran the last few miles quickly and then walked once I got to Target.
Too bad I didn't bring my wallet and a backpack. I could have gone shopping....now that's what I call utilitarian! :)
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