National Running Day

I didn't know this until I read it on Facebook, but today is National Running Day.  YAY!  Another holiday to celebrate.  So how do you celebrate National Running Day?  You run...dumb question.

Luckily it fell on a Wednesday, which is a running day for me anyway.  I'm not sure that I would have properly celebrated unless National Running Day fell on a Wednesday or a Saturday since those are my running days. 

I met the running group at the Clarksville Charm City Run store where Meghan handed me my jacket from the last training session.  It's SOOOO awesome!  I love the new swag we get since Brooks is the sponsor!!! LOVE IT!!! 

Anyway, we got a brief lesson on tempo runs (which I'm really bad at) and then we took off for our run.  It was a short one...3.5 miles...but for me that was a lot.  I am still sore from the race.  My ankle is not 100%.  It's still on the warm side, although today was a very pleasant day.  I think that's all the excuses I had for today.

Bottom line is that I was just not into a run today.  That is until I started running.  I asked Meghan who was my pace since most of the people who showed up for the run were the FAST girls.  She paired me up with Deb.  It was great...Deb is a talker just like me.  We chatted the entire run and it was AWESOME!  So thanks Deb for keeping me going.

I love meeting new people while running.  It is one of my very favorite things about being a runner.  Running and talking just comes naturally to me.  So running and talking with Deb was the perfect way to celebrate National Running Day!