The past two night have been met with some of the fastest running I have done this year. As I mentioned earlier I am on a quest to match last years personal best of 19:04 for the 2 1/2 mile loop that we run during lunch at work.
Monday night was just 14 seconds shy of doing just that! Chris, Z, and I headed out for our nightly run. We were also joined by the Drake. He may or may not be a new addition to the crew, we will see. Anyway, as we started off I jumped out pretty quickly. I was immediately joined by Chris, who will never let me get out ahead of him without being right there. About 1/3 of a mile or less into the run he started to pull away on the slight downhill on the way out. All I could do was to try and keep up. When it was all said and done, he ended up finishing the 2 1/2 mile loop in 19:03. Amazing! I ended up finishing in 19:17. I was giving it all I had, but there was just no catching him on this night. Z ended up being about 45 seconds behind.
Last night was more of the same. Only this time it was Chris who took the lead and kept it the entire way. He ended up covering 2 miles in 14:07, with me finishing in 14:20. Z was an entire minute behind me. Which is kind of funny, since he was actually in front of me heading towards the end of the first mile.
We shall see what tonight brings. I think Chris may have found his stride. It will be all I can do just to try and keep up.
Later
Crazy week. Hope we can maintain what we got going on!
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