After Michael left Rylie was still sleeping so I crawled into bed to play on my phone a little bit (one of my favorite things to do) and then a little later Rylie woke up. I had a lot to do today and I wanted to do my long run so I decided to get an early start on my run. I like to do my long runs on a bike path near my house that is nice and mostly flat. I was there by 9:30, which is early for me, and was off running. I was tired but quickly got in the groove and was even enjoying myself. I was going a little slower pace but I really did not want to take any walk breaks.
There was 5.5 on my schedule but I really wanted to do 6 so that I could say I ran 6 miles without stopping. I ran to my 3 mile mark and turned around to head back to the car. I was feeling great. Then mile 5 hit. That was not a great mile. To distract myself from wanting to stop and walk I made up a little game.
The path I was on paralleled a somewhat busy road in that section so I made up a game of counting south bound car and north bound car and equaling them out. So if there was one car going south and two cars going north the total after the cars had passed me was "one north". It was a running tally and at times it was hard because they would pass at the same time. Sounds kind of funny but it worked. I made it through mile 5 without walking. I even made it up the slight up hill part going strong. Yeah me! Haha
Mile 6 was a lot easier then mile 5. I did not fully decided on 5.5 or 6 miles until I got to 5.5 miles. I figured I was almost there and what is a half of a mile when I had already done 5.5. Plus, I thought it would be more fun to say that I ran 6 miles without stopping rather then 5 and a half miles without stopping. I am so weird sometimes.
Just as I was parking at the trail one of my old roommates texted me and said she and some other roommates were getting together to catch up this afternoon and wondered if I wanted to join. My errands today were going to take me right by her house and so I told them I could not stay long, because of work, but I would love to come. I got done with my errands earlier then expected so I headed right over.
It was so fun! It has been a long time sence we have all seen eachother. Three out of the four of us have babies now and the fourth is trying. Rylie loved having all the babies there. She was laughing the whole time.
We just sat around and chat for about an hour until we had to leave. I was glad I was not the only one that had to leave early. We decided that we should do a get together once a month. I am going to host it next month. That simply means it will be at my house. I thought about doing some snacks or some kind of food but with trying to lose weight I don't want to have to deal with that and it was just fine without food today.
As soon as I got home it was time to get ready for work. Fun fun. At least today I only work until midnight. Rylie has another play date tomorrow with Grace.
Victory: Ran 6 miles without stopping! I went to McDonalds without getting fries. I love McDonalds fries!
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