Running In Place

Last night I got to do 2 of my favorite things: run the hilly 10K and meet an RBFer!

Molly and I live about 45 miles apart and are both preparing for our first Boilermaker, so this was the perfect geographic mid-point and challenging training run to make our introductions.

Well, now I am 2 for 2 in meeting fellow bloggers who are just as awesome in “real life” as they are in cyberspace!! Not only was Molly a pleasure to talk to, but we seemed to be running in near-perfect sync with each other - without having to make much effort to speed up or slow down to keep together (well, she says she didn’t slow down for me anyway ). We had decided at the outset that we wanted to make it a slow, strong run rather than trying for speedy and we pretty quickly seemed to fall into a pace that was just right. Molly lives in a hilly town and she is powerful on hills for sure. There were a couple of times, on the steep inclines, when I had to fall a couple of paces behind but having her to catch kept me pushing hard! It was all the more motivating to have someone to run alongside and chat with. We talked alot about running, of course, and future plans - the “M” word even came up!

The weather was cooperative in that the thunder and lightning that was anticipated never came. With the heat and humidity, we were kind of hoping for a downpour, though. All we got were a few sputtering sprinkles. In the end, we finished strong in 1:12:06 for an 11:38 overall pace. So we were happy.

Now if we can just get Jack to pop over from Germany, and Jon to swing in from Michigan we will have a great Central New York blogging contingent. And speaking of CNY blogging, Molly and I were both interviewed by the local paper regarding our blogs as motivational tools in training for the Boilermaker. It hasn’t come out yet as far as we know, but should in the next week or so. New running friends and soon-to-be-famous RBFers, we are!!