Snowy Run and Chance Meetup

Today: 7.59 miles
Week: 20.34 miles
February: 74.86 miles
2010: 152.93 miles

Good run today. Decided on 7.5 miles and did just over that. Was feeling a bit tired through mile six or so, but near the end of mile seven had a surge. Started going fast and held a roughly 7:30 pace for about a quarter of a mile. This felt great. After the quarter mile, I didn’t feel like I was getting tired at all, but noticed my pace had gone to about 8:00 and I was slowing down without even noticing it, so I decided to take it easy for the last quarter mile or so of my run.

During the fast run, I decided to take an alternate route back to my house so I could keep running fast without hitting a big hill. Just when I slowed down, I noticed two runners approaching me. One of them had a Daily Mile (http://www.dailymile.com) tshirt on. These had just been printed off and mailed out this week and a bunch of people on DM got them yesterday. I got mine as well. I noticed this guy was wearing VFFs. Sure enough it was a local DM member, Matt W., aka “Luau” http://runluaurun.com/, one of my DM friends. We’d tried to meet up during the Super Sunday 5K but never found each other in the crowd. We stopped, greeted each other, and got a pic snapped by Matt’s friend, Mike.

After that I ran just a bit more and then walked the last couple blocks home. Weather today was pretty snowy. Was a light snow when I left, got pretty heavy towards the end. You can see some of it in the photo there. But it was above freezing and there was no real accumulation occurring, so it was actually pretty beautiful to run in.