20.06, 2:40:23, 7:59 avg
Except for a slight glitch, this run couldn't have gone much better.
Met up with Beka, Andrea, and Dixie at 5:00 in Longleaf. Beka and Andrea are both training for same race I am - Chasing the Unicorn in mid August in PA. Dixie was along to see how far he could go.
We started off from the parking lot and headed inside the neighborhood so I decided to ditch my fuel belt since we'd be back to the same spot in about 3.5 miles. After starting again needed to catch up the ladies so first mile was a little faster than planned (8:05 instead of 8:30). And then the next few miles were right about 8:00.
Grabbed my fuel belt and a swig of gatorade from my car. I could see the ladies on the trail not too far up ahead and was about to pick it up to catch them but then saw I had dropped my ipod that had been on my fuel belt. Thought about getting it later but then afraid maybe I had droppped it someplace it might have gotten run over. Ran back toward my car just as another group was starting out. Dixie decided to switch groups so he went with them. I finally found my ipod and it definitely could have gotten stepped on if left on the ground where I dropped it so glad I went back. But, now all alone I decided to drive ahead to Diane's house where they'd be going, and then run towards them until meeting back up.
It worked, and soon intercepted them with Jolene now with them, and soon we picked up Melanie.
After that, the run was pretty steady with most miles right at 8:00 or up to 10-15 seconds faster. I had one extra mile to finish once the rest of the group was done so I just did a short out and back by myself which ended up as my fastest mile at 7:13 pace.
And then, time to head up and finish up packing followed by about 11 hours in a car (to be followed up by a second day in the car of 11 hours!)
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