Best run of the season! Had a great crowd show up for the 2 for 1 sale on the Dekker girls :) I love having a good excuse to do a running party. Kelli, Chad, Annette (my SIL), Steam8, Catherine, Eric, Elliot (the cutest one there), Allie, Smooth, Wendy, QP and I all showed up with the promise of good conversation, running and most importantly food! :) We ran South on the JRP to the lake, around the dirt loop and back. The cutest running family turned around at mile 3ish, and a few others around 4.5 and 5, but QP, Kelli, Annette, Chad and I all made the full loop which put us at 11.25 back to the cars. Well, Chad dropped off at home (good thing too, if his knee hurts after another run with me I'm going to know for sure that I am just BAD luck for him and won't ever run with him again!!) but he joined us (showered and warm -jerk!) for the good food afterward to pick up his car. We also got to meet his lovely wife and cute as a button little girl!! The weather was just perfect! Couldn't have ordered a better November running day and visiting with hot cocoa (and whipped cream of course!), donuts, oranges and juice afterward was obviously the best part of the run. Chad's daughter was told that this is why daddy runs, so that he can have a donut party and didn't she want to start running now? Gotta get those recruits young! Eventually we all got cold and full and headed off, but I had such a great morning!! It is definitely a run that I will enjoy for years to come - memories are the best. A big thank you to everyone who made the effort to come and make this run SO amazing for me and QP. I really can't thank my amazing running friends enough!! I know there were lots of others that wanted to come as well, so we will definitely make sure you are there next time so you can enjoy all the fun! QP got some pics, but I didn't get any :( You'll have to check out her blog soon to see if they get posted. AP: 8:51 splits: 9:20, 9:02, 9:00, 8:37, 8:55, 9:14, 8:50, 8:42, 8:45, 8:26, 8:42, 8:21 (last .25) I must say these splits and especially the finishing ones. I was running with QP and the elevation change isn't all that easy to take, but she was busting out some speedy miles for the finishing of a long run and a long week. I checked our AP about 2 miles out from the finish and we were at an 8:57, so we pulled the average down quite a bit to the finish. If you know me, you know how much I love a fast finish :)
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