Today we went to the Baylands in Palo Alto for our first group run. Let me tell ya. Running with people (even complete strangers up to that point) is so much more fun than running alone. I made it to mile three. A new personal record. And I'm so excited that I get to do this once a week until October 18!
Here's a pic of some of the girls I ran with today. This is what we look like after 3 miles of running (and one mile of walking).
Here are some lessons I learned today:
1. Cotton is Rotton. They coaches told us this...when cotton is wet it doesn't feel good. But i didn't want to be cold, and the running top I have that is of appropriate fabric makes me look like a sausage. So I wore it under the UT t-shirt. It was super humid out there, and the cotton felt really heavy. Not comfortable.
2. New shoes, while awesome, sould perhaps not be broken in on a 4 mile course hello, 4 blisters!
3. More than 3 hours of sleep would have greatly improved my performance and overall feeling of wanting to die.
More soon!
-Lauren
Ok, so it was only a mile, but I did wake up at 5:50 to run this morning. Thanks in large part to JWalker waking me up. It is much easier to tell one's alarm to shut up than one's friend.
