Training Partners ROCK!

Kate, this one goes out to you! Today was my first run with my marathon training partner. I drove to her house so we could run on the Baltimore & Annapolis Trail, which just so happens to be where the majority of my Half-Marathon is going to be run. As we set off toward the trail we jibber jabbered about random stuff, her graduating, school, life in general. It was great to talk to someone besides the little voice in my head. As we approached the trail we had the option to turn left onto it, or to turn right onto it. We decided to turn left, after looking at a map later, had we turned right we would have overlapped my Half-Marathon's course a little. We cruised along the trail for 4 miles before turning back. The miles just seemed to pass, didn't even realize how far we were going and how far we went. Around mile 6ish we were both getting tired, and thirsty. Luckily there was a water fountian just ahead. We stopped and got some water and took a quick potty break before finishing off the run. The final couple miles were hard, after the water break my legs seemed to think we were done and didn't want to come back. Perseverence paid off and we ran the trail back to the streets to get to her house. The total mileage on the day came to about 9.3 miles. Since we ran this one electronics free I don't have mile splits, or even an accurate time. Judging by the clock in my car at the time we left and time we got back we spent about 1:40:00 on the run. That would come to an average pace of about 10:43min/mile. Having a training partner is great! Two more weeks until we really start to train for the MARATHON!