Establishing The Pace
I met up with my five running partners (pace-pushers). These women are all older than me. You’d think I’d have an advantage. No way! They are part of the ultra marathon crowd. That distance both intimidates and taunts me. They run 30-100 mile races. I understand the whole endurance sport, having done a couple of Ironman Triathlons. However, I just can’t fathom being on my feet for up to 24 hours for one of those ultra marathons. If I could check into a little hotel – of which there are none on those courses – and put my feet up for about 3 hours I could see that distance as somewhat more attractive. For now, I’ll hang on to their training pace on our Saturday runs and log on to find out their race results. But today we had some business to take care of – a fast 12 mile run.
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