Of course any time there is a race challenge involved I just can't pass it up, so I ran the Double G Challenge (Barb's 5K on Saturday and JG 13.1 on Sunday).
When I got into my wave I noticed that I "knew" one of the 2:30 pacers. It was my "interwebs friend" who I have never had the chance to meet in real life, Kelley. Of course I had to be all awkward and introduce myself and we were now IRL friends. Kelley asked if I was running with their 2:30 group today and I just basically giggled and said "that's cute." My body and legs are toast from the past nine weeks consisting of eight 1/2 marathons, a 10 miler, seven 5Ks, a 1-mile and several weekends full of traveling. I had no expectations for myself today and I decided that I would stay with them as long as I could and would likely fall off a few miles in. I have never ran with a pace group before, so why not just see what this is all about....