Group Run

Miles: 6.5
Average Pace: 8:38

It was tentative that the girls and I were meeting to run hills today, but yesterday Carin (the one who was most sure she was going) had to call and cancel. Both Cherise and Kathryn weren't completely committed, so I tried to get a hold of them to see who was showing up. I didn't get Cherise, so I e-mailed Kathryn. Kathryn replied that she was 95% sure she was going. I was worried that the 5% would mean I might get stranded (on a route I don't really feel like running by myself), so I kept pestering her until she changed to 100%. Later on I talked to Cherise and she said she would be there too.

Cherise, Kathryn, and I got there on time, we were just about to head out when Jenny and Laura showed up too. Okay, now Kathryn was looking at me like I had totally tricked her into showing up. :0 I had invited Jenny and Laura earlier in the week, but they had said they couldn't make it. So it was a surprise to me as well! Hopefully Kathryn wasn't mad about me bullying her into a hill workout with some fast girls...

We ran the flat mile and a half to the hilly neighborhood, then back-and-forthed through the neighborhood for about 3 miles. We kept the pace around 8:30-8:40, which was challenging on the hills! It was a great workout for all of us!

We finished with the 1.5 miles back to our cars, I was planning on adding an extra 1/2 mile on so that I would be sure to get to 40 this week (wasn't sure what Sunday's miles are going to be), but then Kathryn was telling me her training schedule had 14 miles for Sunday. Perfect! I said I would run them with her, that way I didn't feel that the extra 1/2 mile today was necessary.