I received a sweet invitation to run with Smooth and her gang this morning! I was so EXCITED, but realized that I needed to be home before they were going to be done. DARN IT!!! SO I decided to text my SIL and see if she wanted to run up the canyon. She just did IVF on Thursday and none of the embryos survived. Having done IVF, I can understand her devastation. I told her we would just run...no talking so she doesn't have to put on a happy face (only if she wanted too). Then Smoothie's gang moved up their start time. Ahhhh....I really wanted to go with them, but knew I couldn't bail on my SIL. BUT then I received a text from my SIL at 5:55am that her hubby had just gotten home from work and she couldn't leave the kids with him (he needed to sleep). So I went from 2 running dates to nothing. I guess that is how the cookie crumbles! It was much warmer than I had anticipated this morning and ended up taking off my jacket. My first 2.5 miles were HARD. I was going slow and breathing like a monster. But as soon as I turned around, I was able to kick it into the next gear. I was able to maintain an 8:15-8:30 pace for 1.5 miles and then continued to pick up the pace. My last .4 home I was able to hit a 6:30 mile (talk about breathing hard!!!). Quickly showered and headed up to SL to drive my mom around. I hope she can get a job and car soon. No stretching or foam rolling. | 