Shoot for the Stars

Cheri's house. 6:30 ish a.m. For some reason I couldn't hear my alarm go off again on my phone or it just never went off. How annoying! Luckily, Mishel texted me to see if I still wanted to run due to the rain outside that was coming down pretty steadily. Of course, I said yes lets still run! I want to get this long run out of the way. Mishel needed an extra 5 min which was good cause I was still getting ready. I had to change my outfit due to the rain. My shoes did really well though! I love my new shoes! We managed to drag Cheri along with us. She was not liking the rain but she's had worse condition for a marathon before. We ran a new route that was suppose to go to a cementary out towards Enumclaw but Mishel wanted to turn R on a country road that went past some of the most beautiful homes ever! Wow! What goregous scenary! Plus it wasn't rainning the whole time, in fact most of the time it wasn't rainning! We got a great run in! We had to add an extra loop in because the short cut we took made the run slightly shorter. My hamstrings were really tightening up on the last hill. We walked a couple of times when Cheri wanted to. Near the end I just booked it on the last stretch to Cheri's home! It felt good but I was tired! Awesome run! Slight R knee pain but dissapatied.

Mishel's home. 5:30 a.m. Very damp/foggy this morning. It felt cold due to the moisture but we had patches of warm and cold throughout the run. Mishel, Niki, Angela, and I ran this morning. Angela and Niki had headlites which was nice. I wore my new safetly blinking red light to help while we ran. It was fun to wear my new running clothes, shoes, and light. Fairly good pace we all kept as we ran together. We walked 1-2 times as Niki needed to catch up after the hill and also when the cars both came from different directions. Quite a few cars that passed us a long the way. Usual route past school and the L on road up hill, then back around to gravel road and to main rd. We finished at the end of Grayson Rd and walked to our homes.

Cheri's home. 5:30a.m. It was actually pretty warm this morning. We ran R from Cheri's Rd out that way so I thought it would be a shorter run however I have never been with them when they do the regular route where it is almost 7 miles. I hardly got any sleep last night so I wouldn't have agreed to run that long if I knew in advance. It was tough! There were a lot of rolling hills as well. We ended up running all the way back to the small rd that goes up a hill like when we run from Mishel's place. Wow! Talk about being surprised! I guess this means that it is good trainning for the 1/2 coming up in mid Oct.

Lakeland Hills. 5:30 a.m. We were suppose to meet at 5:15 a.m. but Cheri was running behind and Mishel and I were waiting for her so we could all carpool together. I felt a little rushed on time. We met up with Nikki. Janet wasn't able to make it this time. I felt a lot better today than I felt on Wed, however it was very hot and humid this morning! Yuck! Luckily I had shorts and tank which helped a lot! Cheri was acutually running really well this morning and we kinda kept the lead near the end. The very end Nikki and I kinda raced to the finish sort of. Good run. We just did the usual route.