Aug 18, 2012 14 miles

today's run was with Todd and Lee. Lee couldn't get here until 11am so by the time we caught up and got out to run it was around 12:30pm. it was a little hot, not close to what it has been (high was around 83) but most of the run seemed pretty well shaded and we had good cloud cover. the run went pretty well, i was hoping it wouldn't turn out like the last time we all ran together, the mississippi blues marathon. during that run, the other two were supposed to pace me. they did, right into exhaustion. today was a little different, Todd and Lee have not been running like they had in january and i was able to keep up with Todd for the most part (he did walk several times to let me catch him) and unfortunately Lee only did about 7 miles. however, the longer the run went the more i thought i was going to tire out at the end. we ran this run 15 seconds per mile faster (on average) faster than my 15 mile run last week. i knew the pace was a little fast but it didn't feel all that bad until the last mile or two when i was ready to be done. the overall time was 2:23.25, a pace of 10:15, for 14 miles. i was very happy with that and felt really good afterwards. not like my usual fall-out. the odd thing is we ran this run at that fast of a pace for me and it seemed like we talked a good bit during most of the run. once again it is late and i am tired, my thoughts for the day have all escaped me at the present time.