What a great morning for a race!!!! I'm in New Mexico to race with my beautiful sister-in-law, Kristina; and spend Easter and Spring Break with my family. I met Kristina at the race this morning and we took a lap around the track to warm up and then stretched out. It was an out and back course with a downhill in the beginning and uphill, of course, on the home stretch. We started out at a pretty quick pace and I was worried that we might fizzle out; but the downhill allowed us to keep it up. By the time we turned around, we were good and warmed up and ready for a harder push. We had one lady pass us toward the end, but we kicked it up and passed her before the finish line! I was sooooo darn proud of Kristina!!!! This was the longest continuous run she's done since having a baby - and she held strong the whole way!!! She thought that she would be happy with 40 minutes, and really happy with 35 -- so, 31 blew us both away!! I'm not sure if I was as good a pacer for her as Lybi was for me - but the results were still great! Running with family brings out the best in us!!! It was very fun to see both our families, her parents, and my parents at the finish line.
Afterwards, I ran 3.7 more miles with my sweet husband to make today a good mileage for Saturday. I think 7 miles is a bit of a round-up; the actual mileage was closer to 6.97, but who cares about a .03? (hee,hee)
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