13+ miles

Met Kim N. at Panera this morning at 6:00 a.m. and we did a little over 13 at a darn good pace!! We were right at 10:00 for all but the first mile or so.. pretty good!!

Kathy H is in North Carolina, and Patti and Kathy were thinking more like 7:00 a.m. to run.. I had to be back home by 8:45 at the latest so we could get to Lincoln by 10:00 a.m for a football game, so I said I'd just go it alone unless they really wanted to get up at 5:00 a.m.! Can't blame them, especially after last Sunday's run!! Plus they get to be done with their long runs.. I had one more left!!

Anyway Kim emailed yesterday to see what mileage I was doing Saturday..turns out we were both looking to run about 13.. She has been nursing a sore calve and was needing to take it slow and easy.. I can do that!!!!! Actually I was thinking I wanted to get a good hard-ish run in today, since I've been tapering forever! A good run a little on the hard side was what I needed to get my out of my taper slump.. 3 weeks is waaay too long.. Funny thing is Kim's easy is my hard!!

And that is exactly what we did today.. 13+ miles right at 10:00... the first mile or so were slow, but not after that.. I did stretch my calves once because I started to get a cramp..probably the humidty! Not only did today feel good, but my psyche needed the boost too!! I feel real good about Quad Cities right now!!

So I got 2 5.5 mile runs in this week, and 13 today, then I'll do 2 real short runs this week like I did before and I should be rested for QC.!