Saturday Runs

Another long run today - 12 miles - and it went well.  Again, I felt that I could have gone farther, but holding back just a little for the next workout, and the next, is the road to success for this training plan to work.

It was nice, too, to enjoy  the sociability of being with other runners on a Saturday morning, because lately many of my workouts have been done in solitude.  Out of habit or convenience many in our running group are committed afternoon runners, while I am becoming more and more convinced, as this blog has mused, before that I am a morning runner.  But on Saturday mornings, nearly everybody shows up, gets in a long run, and then has the rest of the day free to do all of those interesting things that runners do on a Saturday in Highlands.  So round and round we go, getting off the usual roads, looping all over Highlands, in pairs and threes and fours, talking and laughing and touching base with one another.  Some of these runners I only see on Saturdays - like Karen - because her schedule does not allow weekday runs.

That is why we have a running club, after all - to encourage and motivate one another, to enjoy the out-of-doors, and to simply have fun together doing something we enjoy.