Run, Run, Walk

At 8am this morning, I went to meet up with the Marathon Training group. I wasn't going to do the entire run, but I wanted to see if a) people showed up, b) if the person organizing showed up, and c) how fast the group was going to run. A nice group of about six people were there, the woman leading the run was there, and they run faster than me. I was able to stick with them from the store to the White House, but then I began to lag.

So this is my dilemna, do I want to run with people who are that much faster than me? In the long-run I will get faster, but it's getting to that point that I would find frustrating. I don't like the idea of holding back a faster runner, but I don't want to burn myself out trying to keep up with a faster pace group. While I don't mind being the last runner during the fun runs, I think I would find it incrediblly frustrating being the slowest runner in the training group. I don't want to spend the next 3 months feeling the need to catch up.

I broke away from the run because I was doing the Stop the Silence 8k in downtown DC with MLJ and P. It was a good run for me, fairly fast. P ran with me and I think he was running slowly to stay with me. The only frustrating thing with this run is that the course was in part, shaped like the teeth of a saw. We'd run down these short blocks off of Pennslyvania and then U-turn back to Pennslyvania Ave. On the way back, the finish line was taunting me everytime we popped back out from the tooth section.

After the run, I met up with D, who was doing a training walk. So we walked together. It was an active morning. I think it's time for a nap!