Marathon training with my new group starts tomorrow. It's an all-clubs run, so there should be quite a few people there. I really hope there will be some women who run as slow as me, otherwise I'll be pushing too hard to keep up with them and everything I've read says that's the wrong thing to do on a training run. I get very anxious about being able to keep up with the group and don't want to hold anyone back. It took a few tries with my old group to find people that I could keep up with, and there were times when I ran alone.
I ran 6.2 miles on the treadmill yesterday, with the incline set at 2.0. It wasn't a great run, but it felt good to get it in. I went to the club on Wednesday, the one that I plan to run with, and changed into my workout gear when I realized I didn't pack my shoes. I looked around, but there weren't any size 8 1/2 running shoes I could steal, er, borrow, like Jeanne did with the running shirt. So I dressed back in my street clothes and left.
It wasn't a total waste, tho. I managed to find a flyer on the marathon training, which was full of information I couldn't seem to find anywhere else. Then I went to a running store in St. Paul and signed up for my next race--the Human Race 8K. Other's would call it the St. Patrick's Day race. They offer two different t-shirt options: one that says "Be Human" and the other that says "Be Irish." In the past I've chosen the former, but this year I decided to go with the latter since I'm half Irish. This will be the third year I ran it and I'm hoping I can break 60 minutes this year. Last year I was just coasting until the very end and I came in around 65 minutes. So I think it's do-able.
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