Saturday was the last of my 9 mile recovery runs. I ran on post with the Manna Multi-sports folks. That is the group that John Y organizes and trains with. They have all just got done running the Myrtle Beach Marathon and have set their sights on some local races. There are a couple of folks that are training for a marathon, John being one of them (he is in the USASOC Boston Group as well). We started off at Hendricks Stadium, where one of the tracks here on post is. From there we got up on Reilly Road and went on to Pope AFB to run around the airfield. Outside of a big downhill at the beginning and a corresponding big up hill at the end of that route, it is mostly flat and fast.
I like running with John, he is an extremely good runner and is very experienced. The first race I ever ran with him I started off kind of fast (like normal) and was just tooling along. He passed me up, said hello (we were in the same Group at the time) and kept motoring past me. I figured I would catch up to him later on and that he would fade on out. Well, I kept thinking that as he got smaller and smaller in the distance. I think he was 2 minutes faster than me in a 10k, that was when I decided I should run with him more, it is better to train with someone that is faster than me. On Saturday, I kept up with him for the 9 miles, until we hit the big uphill, then he pulled away a little bit. Ended up keeping a 7:24 pace for the 9 miles, which was just about on target. Pretty good run.
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