We had a large group from two counties get together today for a long run. A bunch of guys and Devra, who is a beast :). There were five marathon winners there which was just plain awesome. I was pretty geeked out (I still am) and happy when we pulled in and very pleased to just be there. What a treat. The route was a double out and back on the JRT. This was cool because it allowed everyone to go as far as they wanted to but still get some time with the elites in. There was a pretty good headwind on the return of the first and the out of the second that made it interesting. There was some cranking going on during the second stretch. It was very humbling to be running what I thought was a good pace and still get dropped hard :). It was great to see such good camaraderie even though some of these guys compete so hard against each other so often. Very thankful for today. Runs like this will do so much good in getting me to where I want to be next season. It was also very nice to meet and run with new people that normally I only read about. 6:29 | 