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Ran w/ Lily  & Lyns again.  Did the river trail loop twice.

~ a more exciting post below ~

planned on meeting lily at 6am.  came outside at 5:55 and heard a child's voice.  freaked me out.  what kind of kid is awake and outside at 5:55?  looked down and saw it was Crystal and her 5 year old son going for a walk.  I didn't say hi b/c I did not want to scare them, and they went on their way.  Met Lily and went on river trail then past kamrie's elementary school where we saw crystal and collin again, this time said hi and collin asked his mom if he could go with us. :) we ran back to our houses to wait for lyns.  We were early so we did a figure 8 in our neighborhood blocks.  Lyns came out and we picked up the pace a bit.  Did the full river trail loop and dropped of Lily then added 1.5 so Lyns could get 5 miles today.  Lynsey and I decided we are going to try to do more speed work.  Or at least try for the last mile or two to really pick up the speed.

Wes' alarm went off at 5:45 so he could run & I went back to sleep, carson woke up at 6 to use the potty I went back to sleep, wes was still here and left at 6:15, went back to sleep, my alarm went off at 6:30, went back to sleep until 6:45, went back to sleep again until 7.  wes was now home and I FINALLY decided to go run at 7:15 which only left time for 3 miles :(  I'm pathetic if I don't have someone outside waiting for me.

Wanted to run on the river trail,but the construction workers were there and would proably give me a ticket for trespassing past the do not enter signs. :)

3.5 w/ Lynsey today.  We just did the river trail loop.  

Avg pace 8.01

8 miles this morning w/ the lily-meyster.  we started at 5:30 and it sure was dark.  the moon was like orangish-yellowish.  Kinda spookey, especially when we ran past gotham city (it's this old run down factory w/ big black smoke stack tower looking things and broken windows and broken bricks...i'll take a picture some time).  We had a good time running around town and always a good time talking.  Our neighbor Larry drove by and yelled something at us, Lily was going to yell some obscenities back and give him the bird, but then I recognized him as our neighbor and not just some creapo...although some have mistaken him for the latter. :) ha ha 

Went to ZuMbA last night and the teacher was a drill sergeant.  She was working us in a sweat shop :) ha ha but in all seriousness it was hot in that room.  I was extremely coordinated, glad to see Melody & Nancy there, always more fun w/ people you know.  And I could only wish I looked as cute as Lyns doing those moves. :) At one point I thought I might just pop my hip out of socket.

6 miles w/ Lyns & Lily this morning.  I forgot I was going to mention the big black mail box I almost ran into yesterday b/c it was so dark I never saw it coming. :)  I almost did it again this morning.  We ran to the gym and it got SSSSOOOO WINDY! 

Good conversations today about sex offenders who live in our neighborhood.  It got me so intrigued I had to come home and check out the registry.  Lily you were right 800 w & 300 s.  I'm now planning new routes that don't include running past the offender houses :)

avg pace 8.24