Starbucks Lakeland Hills. 7 a.m. Knew that it had been awhile since I had ran and Sunny encouraged me to come out for a run with the ladies. Ladies there: Sunny, Niki, Janet, Angela, and Angela brought a new runner who just moved into the neighborhood-Marianne, I think that was her name. She seemed very nice. Weather was great for a run. We did a different route than usual at Lakeland start. We ran out along the road we usually go on but made a R onto 62nd street back around to Sunny's place. It was like doing the route from Sunny's but we started a Lakeland. So when we got to her place it was mentally hard to keep going. It was a good work out and I'm glad the pace wasn't terribly fast because I could tell I was out of shape already. Great run! No one stayed around for coffee this time.

Sheri's home. 6:00 a.m. Mishel and I carpooled to Shari's home in my car. It was cloudy this morning so it made it hot and humid on our run. Everyone else who were going to run bailed last minute for the run. It was only Sheri, Mishel, and I but we had a great run! We ran from her newly graveled road and went down to the main street and turned Left instead of R and did a loop in the area. It was on nice country roads the whole time and you could smell the fresh smell of cows...hahaha! I actually don't mind it though! There were cars and trucks that kept passing us so we had to move over to different areas of the road when they passed us depending on what why they were heading. We had some rolling hills which made the run difficult. We also ran on some loose gravel and that felt like running on sand. I was tired from yesturday's run as well. Good run though. Mishel kept the lead. I stayed back with Sheri most of the time but then caught up with Mishel near the end. Mishel was giving us a hard time for not keeping up. I just didn't want to push it as hard today but ended up going faster at the end. Great run! I ready was sweating!

Mishel's home. 5:30 a.m. Ladies who joined Mishel and I were Angela and Marianne the new lady in the neighborhood. She ran and met us on our street. It was VERY foggy this morning so it made it hard to breath and do the work out to it's fullest potential. Mishel and I ran ahead of the other ladies to keep up a good pace. We are thinking of working on some speed this Friday so keeping the pace up, as Mishel would say, "No walking." We ran the usual route and made a L turn where the road bends and you go on gravel road. Then we took a steep hill up and back around near the highschool. There we met up with the other ladies. We kept the lead though on the way back. Mishel pushed again but it was good pace even though I wanted to slow down.

TT: 50:04  Distance on my GPS was 5.5 but we really did about 5.7, my gps didn't calculate right away. TT is according to 5.5. distance and so are the rest of the splits and averages.

Avg: 9:02   Max: 7:05

Splits: 11:19 (whew! That is horrible!), 8:58, 8:46, 8:27, 8:15, 7:58 (I love how we got WAY faster

Shari's home. 5:30 a.m. Mishel and I rode over to Shari's home and met up with Shari. No one else joined us this morning. (Maybe we scared everyone off on Wed. with our speedy run). It was a goregous morning for a run! There was just one cloud I saw but it really cleared up with blue skies and the sun came out about 10 min after we started our run. The barn yards, grass, sunrise, Mt. Rainier, etc all looked so beautiful this morning! God is good! How lucky am I to see this bright and early and have a nice run with 2 fun ladies. I was very tired from only getting 5 hours of sleep last night; just got home late from MK and shopped after for an item; then by the time I get to bed....man! Not the best for the next day run. I felt okay but I definetly didn't mind the slower speed and walking after a steep hill. I think we walked 2x on the run. We ran from Shari's home out to the main road and took a R this time then turned R on the first gravel road that did a little loop and joined back into the main Rd. again. It was fun to do a new route for me (last time I did this I had to turn around cause I was running short on time). Slight L knee pain but nothing major. Tired tired tired, so was Mishel so that was good.

ARSHS. 5:30 a.m. Mishel and I went to the HS to work on some speed trainning. We wanted to switch it up and get faster on our pace. I was surprised she agreed to hop the fence with me. Cheri was going to go but she backed out last minute. The gate was actually open today so we could walk right in. We did a few warm up laps to get going. 3 to be exact. We then lined up on the lanes of 7 and 8. I was in lane 7. We started at the line just past the one that i usually would start at. We ran pretty much full board for almost 1/4 of a mile. Then we would walk a lap. We did 4 sets of these. It was tough! Mishel and I were just worn out by the 3rd and 4th run. We kept getting faster almost each time.