5.5 miles in 7:38 pace Met my group in Boulder and noticed that Coach Darren was having his Striders group meet at the same time and location as us and he had planned for a guest speaker to come after our run to motivate us for Bolder Boulder. As we were gathering and getting ready to run, fellow blogger Scott Ensign came up to me and introduced himself. He was there with his brother, David who runs with the Striders group. I told Scott to come run with our group since we are a little faster, so he joined in. It was nice to meet him in person; he is very friendly and keeps the conversation interesting. We did a 15 minute warm-up, stretching, 4X25 second strides Then 5X2 minutes at 10K pace (mine were in 5:41, 5:25, 5:40, 5:35, 5:42 pace) A short 15 minute cool-down and we were back at the meeting spot for some liquid, stretching, and a little Q&A with pro-runner Renee Metivier Baillie, who is running for team USA in the pro start of the Bolder Boulder on Monday. I sat with Scott and met his brother, David, who shared the article he had written about the Bolder Boulder for the Daily Camera (local newspaper). Afterwards, I had a busy day going to two different birthday parties for friend's kids. Eating cake twice in one day probably wasn't my best pre-race diet plan, but its in the past now. ;) | 