12 miles in 8:23 pace Had a pleasant surprise yesterday when my friend, Callie told me that she and a few other friends from my ward were planning on running around Standley Lake this morning and I was invited to join them! I suggested that we go out and back on the Big Dry Creek trail since the route around Standley Lake is mostly single track, and half of it is on road anyway. So I joined them at 6:30 a.m. at the trailhead just .1 mile from my house. They were planning on 10 miles, so I ran the first 5 with them and when they turned around I went another mile out on the trail and picked up the pace to try and catch them on the way back. Ran mid-9:00 pace on the way out and low-7:00 pace on my way back. Finally caught them one by one in the final two miles. Callie was the last one I caught as we panted up the final hill to the parking lot. She urged me to keep going so I ran home, grabbed 5 water bottles and walked back to the parking lot to stretch and hydrate with them. It was so nice to have friends to chat with! And the added bonus was that my Visiting Teaching partner and one of our Visiting Teachees were there and my partner had already read the lesson we were scheduled to discuss on Monday, so we just had some spiritual discussion during the first two miles and counted it! Since I never got to my pu-pu-su workout last night, I did it this morning. Push ups: 20, 25, 15, 15, 25 Sit ups: 60, 72, 54, 50, 70 Pull ups: 8, 8, 8, 6, 10 | 