I love that I have friends, whom I have not seen for over a year, who confidently knock on my door first thing in the morning dressed in their running clothes (without an invitation). My friends Nancy and Jim (friends from college who married each other) are here from Denver for the week and they came by this morning to run. I paced Jim the last 10 miles to the finish of the Squaw Peak 50 miler two summers ago (it was the hardest thing I have ever done for love or money). It was so nice to see them. Nancy is a children's book illustrator and he is an English Ph.d. who's tenured at the U of Colorado. We took it slow and chatted up all our recent diet ideas (paleo v. macrobiotics), health and injury issues, children's progress, and all the friendly gossip over the last year. I have been blessed throughout my life to be surrounded and loved by truly amazing friends. | 