November 1 - 7 miles

7 miles = piece of cake compared to 16.

Publix turkey sub and Kashi whole grain rice for dinner last night and a slice of toast and water for breakfast pre-run today. The Galloway groups got a slight reprieve this morning as we started an hour later, at 7. It was 60 degrees and 90% humidity, with a chance of rain. I opted for dri-fit long sleeves - my first of the running season. We met at a beaches location for a "magic mile" (times mile) and 7 miles total. Our group, which was seemingly much smaller this week, jogged 1 mile then we did the magic mile - Rachel and I ran together and didn't really care to go all out, and we finished in 8:30. We then ran 5 more. One of the ladies in the group, an older lady named George, shared a few of  her past racing experiences (including last year's breast cancer marathon - "it was HOT out.") with me. She said there's a great book by the University of Iowa on the mental side of running. She also said she lives by the saying..."It doesn't matter." So if she doesn't feel like running, she thinks "it doesn't matter" and goes out and does it anyways. All in all, today was good. Not sure if it was the shorter distance, the fact that gas is down to 2.24$ (I filled up after!) or that I have a warm cup of coffee in hand.