Mid-Week Run with the Mamas!

Mirna, Andrea, and Bethany

As mentioned in recent posts, we have been trying to meet mid-week for our "long" 8-mile run. These runs are achievable when alone, but much more fun to do with others! This week I was able to meet up with Bethany and Mirna on Wednesday to knock this one out.

We met in Browne's Addition and linked in to the Bloomsday course. We decided that we would do the course tonight not only for our training run, but also as a reminder for this running event that we are doing in just a few weeks! Bloomsday is one of the highlights of Spring for me - I think this year is my 21st one - so it was fun to be with friends and run the course for practice. The rain stopped right after we started and it was a great training run! We figured we completed just under 8 miles total, which is fine given the hills we did. We did wonder where all the cheering, supportive people were though...it's completely different than running it on race day! :)

We are all looking forward to our 16 mile runs this weekend - yes, looking forward to them and grateful to take a step back from the 20's! Bethany, Ashley, and Sarah are going to hit the Fish Lake Trail while Mirna and I will participate in the River Run - a 25k trail run. Wishing us all good weather and pain-free stepping this weekend. Only one more big training to go after this one girls!!!!!!!!!

~ posted by Andrea