Another 8 miles bites the dust

I got to Tumbleweed park and saw a marathon training group setting up for the morning run. I thought how am I ever going to find Karen and Angie? I'd met Lisa before, but there might be hundreds of runners in this parking lot in no time. Luckily, Pokey and OnePinkFuzzy found me. And Javamom found us all.

What a great running group. We couldn't have been better suited for each other. As you could see on the map above, we headed out east to get to the canal and then north towards our goal - the gas station with restrooms and cold beverages. We actually went one mile further and then got to visit the gas station twice.

Now running with women can be awefully lonely. You don't get to talk much. You get to listen, but you often times don't want to do that either. When they want to cross a street, they use you to stop traffic. Now I didn't mind holding all their sports drinks, but I hated answering to, "Hey waterboy, I'm thirsty."

Pat with Karen, Lisa and Angie

I'm just kidding. I had a blast and we talked about all your blogs. We talked about Gels and Gu's (by the way, you might want to send all your empty Gu packets to Javamom, she's collecting). We talked about running and reaching that runner's high. Althought Angie had a different name for it.
They were so fast, I could barely take the picture.

But, not always. The run was great we covered 8 miles in under 2 hours. It felt like half that time. Hopefully, we will do another long run in a few weeks.

Oh by the way, this was my 75th straight day of exercise.