August 16

It's Saturday, and I actually got up at 6:15am to go run with the Marathon group. Nice people, out for a 14 mile run including a really big hill. I did just 9 miles, though, and the first half, with 3 pleasant people to talk to, went by easily. They continued on, I looped back, before the big hill, and completed the 9 miles. I did run a negative split (faster 2nd half than 1st), as I always try to do during run training. -- This is the longest single run I have ever done. Average was between 9 & 10 min./mile, but I was not pushing hard, just trying to get in some conditioning & distance.