5 Miles with Emory and Friends

Tonight I went down to the Riverwalk with Emory and a couple of his running friends. We started at the school board building and ran 5.3 miles total. We went over the Main Street and Acosta bridges and past the Landing and along the Riverwalk. It was a beautiful night along the river and past all the office buildings. I have a thing for office buildings at night. :-) I had a great time and I did just fine. I walked a good pace most of the way and ran some. I would fall behind the group when they ran but then caught up again, and we all finished together. I had a great time and definitely look forward to doing it again!!

My first 5 mile run/walk :-)

Something new

Tonight I've been invited to walk/run with Emory and his running group, down town over the bridges for 5 miles. This will be a stretch for me as I am used to only doing 3 miles a few times a week. Hopefully I will do ok and get used to doing more distance in the future... we shall see..

I watched a marathon today

Emory achieved a great milestone today. He finished the 1/2 marathon portion of the 26.2 with Donna, Breast Cancer Marathon. I volunteered for a water station, so I got to see him come by and even give him a drink. I also got to see the marathon runners as we were manning the water station at the 20 mile mark. I even gave Donna some water. It was a fun day and I am glad I volunteered. Went for a walk/jog tonight becuase I felt so guilty for eating a bunch of junk today. I did not feel like getting out there at all and ended up with my fastest mile pace yet. :)

My fastest pace

This is cool...

So I obviously haven't been posting anything on my fitness blog in a long time, but I found out that I can paste my run (actually walk) data from Nike plus into my blog page and that's pretty cool. (See below) So here is the proof that I actually did get out and walk tonight, even though I really just wanted to stay on the couch under the blanket and keep reading my book rather than going out in the cold.. so I get extra points for that, i think.. ;-)

Tonights walk