Buddy Run and a stroll down memory lane
I went to the Buddy Run at Heather Farms again today. I was running late, so I missed the gathering up and pre-run chat session, as well as the first of the stretches. But, as I reminded myself walking up to the group, I was there and that was the important part.
Stepping into the circle of folks stretching, I waved to Carol, our team's webmistress, and said hi to a couple other folks I knew. While everyone else was chatting about the course for the run, I did a couple of quick stretches that I had missed at the beginning, and then we all headed out.
The day's schedule called for a maximum run of 60 minutes, so we decided to go 25-30 minutes out, and then back. I began running with Carol, whose pace is a little faster than mine, but it gave us a chance to chat and catch up on things which was fun. After a while, I had to stop and walk for a while (10 minutes of running at someone else's pace is tiring!) and she went on ahead.
It was interesting running the course this way - the last time I had done this side of the course, I had started it coming from the other direction so I had a sense of where I was going and what I was getting into.
The heat was bothering me, and the fact that I had run harder than I normally do at the beginning tired me out too. I ended up walking a lot more than I had hoped. I went out 25 minutes, then turned around and came back. I stopped at a nearby park for water and a potty break (I was really glad I knew where that was and the facilities it had!) then finished up the run.
It took me about 55 minutes to complete the whole route, with an average of 19:22 per mile. Carol was already back at the starting point, and she was chatting with Matt, one of the mentors. I joined in the conversation, waiting for other team members to come back and cheer them in. During the course of our chat, it turned out that Matt had gone to high school with me! I was flabbergasted, and somewhat embarrassed (because he's cute, of course, and I had just finished a 55 minute run and didn't exactly look or smell my best). The three of us continued chatting as we all headed back to our cars, and I made a joke about looking him up in the yearbook when I got home. He promptly provided me with his last name, and wished us all a good evening before heading off.
So, of course, when I got home, I had to pull my old high school yearbooks out and paw through them to find him and compare him then to what I know of him now. I ended up spending nearly an hour thumbing through the pages, and reading the notes people had written to me. All in all, it was a surprisingly pleasant evening. And yes, he was cute back then too.
Stepping into the circle of folks stretching, I waved to Carol, our team's webmistress, and said hi to a couple other folks I knew. While everyone else was chatting about the course for the run, I did a couple of quick stretches that I had missed at the beginning, and then we all headed out.
The day's schedule called for a maximum run of 60 minutes, so we decided to go 25-30 minutes out, and then back. I began running with Carol, whose pace is a little faster than mine, but it gave us a chance to chat and catch up on things which was fun. After a while, I had to stop and walk for a while (10 minutes of running at someone else's pace is tiring!) and she went on ahead.
It was interesting running the course this way - the last time I had done this side of the course, I had started it coming from the other direction so I had a sense of where I was going and what I was getting into.
The heat was bothering me, and the fact that I had run harder than I normally do at the beginning tired me out too. I ended up walking a lot more than I had hoped. I went out 25 minutes, then turned around and came back. I stopped at a nearby park for water and a potty break (I was really glad I knew where that was and the facilities it had!) then finished up the run.
It took me about 55 minutes to complete the whole route, with an average of 19:22 per mile. Carol was already back at the starting point, and she was chatting with Matt, one of the mentors. I joined in the conversation, waiting for other team members to come back and cheer them in. During the course of our chat, it turned out that Matt had gone to high school with me! I was flabbergasted, and somewhat embarrassed (because he's cute, of course, and I had just finished a 55 minute run and didn't exactly look or smell my best). The three of us continued chatting as we all headed back to our cars, and I made a joke about looking him up in the yearbook when I got home. He promptly provided me with his last name, and wished us all a good evening before heading off.
So, of course, when I got home, I had to pull my old high school yearbooks out and paw through them to find him and compare him then to what I know of him now. I ended up spending nearly an hour thumbing through the pages, and reading the notes people had written to me. All in all, it was a surprisingly pleasant evening. And yes, he was cute back then too.
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