Grateful

I'm very grateful for all of the wonderful people in my life, but I wanted to quickly highlight two that made my Wednesday night run a nice experience.

The run assigned by my coach last night was this:

Run 75 minutes total
Warm-up 20 minutes till you reach the bottom of a long hill then

Run up it for 2 minutes (think power, not speed)
Recover for 2 minutes
Run up it for 1 minute (fast feet, think speed)
Recover for 1 minute
Repeat 8 times
Finish run in steady zone 2

I lead a group run for the triathlon club every Wednesday night. The nice weather brought out a good-sized group of people. Most just kept running after we got to the bottom of that steep-ass bridle trail hill, but two stayed with me. Both of them had just run the Flying Pig race this past weekend - JT did the half-marathon and E-speed did the full marathon. Both were hurting, but they were willing to keep me company. E even did most of the hill repeats with me.

After 4 times through, I couldn't stomach doing any more, so we continued out for another 10 minutes then turned around for one more go at the hill back to the start.

I don't think I would have done as well without them, so thank you JT and E-speed! You rock!