Déjà vu

Today I ran longer than I have ever run in my life. TEN MILES. The odd thing was that ten miles was much easier and felt much better than nine miles. This week we decided that we would give the 11 minute mile pace group a try. Within 5 minutes, we could both tell that that was too slow, so we broke off to try to catch up with the 10 minute mile group. We made it and continued with them for 10 miles.

We ran through a few neighborhoods in southeast Portland. I do mean a few because when you are running 10 miles, you have to cover a lot of area :) Anyhow, the neighborhoods were beautiful. The trails that we ran on were really cool too. I am noticing that one of the best parts of running in Portland is that you get to see it all.

Around 3 miles, we stopped at a bathroom along one of the trails. People drank water if they had it and everyone stretched a bit. Then I noticed one guy pull out a bag of what looked like pills. I started thinking, "man, he is in bad shape if he has to take ibuprofen only 3 miles in..." Then I realized that it wasn't pills, it was Peanut M&Ms!!! It was everything I had in me to not go over there with my hands open asking for a few. At a later stop, back in the parking lot we started in, the same guy pulls out a bad of Sweedish Fish! As he shares a few with some of the other runners, he announces, "this is my Gu." Genius. I am pretty sure that I can be a runner.

That being said, we are really beginning to fit in well with this running group. It's becoming the favorite part of our Saturday.