A week or two ago Rob IM’d me with “Guess how fast I ran the Wildcat Trail today? 51 minutes.”
51.
Together we’d been doing it in 61. 51 was quite an improvement over that.
“You didn’t stop, did you?”
“Didn’t really feel like it, no.”
Wow.
Then last week, when we ran it together, I noticed that by staying with me the entire way up, he wasn’t working. He might have been strolling in the park for all the effort he was putting out. “Lose fifty pounds, and you can do this too,” he joked.
Well…damn.
So when I ran the trail with Nina (Rob was off vacating), I did run the entire way up. Of course, Nina took off ahead of me and had to wait for me at the top, but as long as she was willing to do that, we were cool.
The three of us were running together again today, and pretty much we had the same plan: You run to the top and wait for me there.
Rob took off. Nina took off. Diane plodded the whole way up. Rob and Nina had completely cooled down by the time I got up there. We managed to run in sync the whole back to the starting line. Okay, I sometimes fell a little behind but then either I pushed to catch up or they slowed down or perhaps both.
Time at the end? 57 minutes.
Not quite as earth-shattering as 51 (or, for the woman who blew past us on the trail, 41 or so), but still: an improvement. I’m getting stronger. Yay, team.
How long is that run?
good luck with your progress! I’ve just started training for my first 5k run… I have found that running is something that I will probably do for many years to come! ( competitively, of course.)