What a BEAUTIFUL day!!!

Today was a BEAUTIFUL day for a run. The weather was almost fall-like. This made my 12 mile run a little easier. Another thing that made it easier? Good company! We had a solid group of 4 or 5 runners and this week’s topic of conversation was former gym teachers. It was kind of nice to hear that EVERYONE I was running with was a terrible runner in high school. We all shared horror stories about gym teachers that made us feel bad for not being able to run fast enough, or not being able to run for long enough, and we were all turned off from running for quite a while. And now here we all are training for a marathon. For any of you gym teachers out there, remember that fitness is different for every person. This body is not built for speed. Never was, never will be, but that doesn’t really mean anything. A lot of training for any run post high school was getting over that I’m-bad-at-running mental roadblock. If you can put one foot in front of the other, you can run! So I’d like to suggest that you get out there and go for a short run. It doesn’t matter if it takes you 6 minutes or 16. You never know. You might like it!

Another thing that I really like about my runs lately is celebrating my completion with a pastry. This week’s pastry was a chocolate chip scone.

YUM! I think I'll have to keep up this new tradition. What pastry should I get next week?

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