The best laid plans....

always change!! Never fails.. you come up with what you think is a good plan, and it always changes!! Oh well.. this morning actually turned out great!!

I was going to run 7.5 from home to the trail on woodside rd, meet up w/ the girls and run another 6.5 to Chatham and back ('Oh, we ran to Chatham and back' !! haha.. right girls?!) to get 14 miles in.. Dear hubby was a little leary of me running by myself on those back roads I was going to do but wasn't going to stop me either. Turns out Grandma wanted to keep Kaiden overnight before we leave on vacation next week, so that meant Saturday morning was open. Kevin, the sweetie, said he would run the 7.5 miles w/ me! Keep in mind Kevin has ran 6.2 once in his life (last year) and that's it. He's a 5K kind of guy.. BUT he was willing to do 7.5 for me...

We were going to drop off a car at the trail, come back home and head back out running. The fog was just unbelievable and when we got to the trail we decided just to stay there and run the trail.
So Kevin and I headed out toward Chatham and back, then added on another mile to get 7.5. He made it the whole way! Way to go Kevin..

When we got back to the trailhead Kathy H and Kathy F were waiting. Patti couldn't make it because she was jet setting around the State w/ Blagojevich (for her job at IEMA).. .. poor Patti!! Kevin headed off for home and Kathy Kathy and I headed down the trail.

It was a very cool morning and even tho it was foggy, it was perfect running weather! The trail was shady so that helped later in the run when the sun came out. There were lots of bikers on the trail but we only saw a couple of runners..thought that was a little odd! Somehow w/ the power of the group I managed 14 miles today! Everyone had a good run and only stopped once at the 1/2 way point for a drink..Thanks girls (and Kevin!) for getting me through it! You guys always keep me going!

Did all 14 w/ an overall 10:29 pace... Here's the route:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5980198