First "Buddy Run" - Monday morning

Every Monday we have a "Buddy Run" where we can meet up with a group and one of the team's mentors to do a light morning run. I chose to meet up with Annie with the Lake Merced group. It's on my way to work, but kind of a pain to have to back track to go home and clean up and then turn around and go back again to head south for work. Annie lives just beyond Lake Merced and was so awesome to offer up her place for me to get ready so I would be able to just hop back on the highway to head down to Palo Alto.

So Monday morning the alarm went off at 5:00am... yep, FIVE A.M. -ugh. I headed to the parking lot we were to meet at 6:00, but it was SO dark that I could not see anything! I waited a bit and then about 5 minutes after 6:00 I decided to drive down to the farther side of the parking lot just to check. Sure enough, Annie & her mentor Mike were over there! One other girl joined us and we ran about 10 minutes then did some light stretching, then continued on until we reached 15 minutes and turned back. Again, I had to walk for about a minute, but still doing pretty good I think! My hip flexors are really sore!

Tuesdays we are just supposed to strength train on our own with whatever activity we choose. Wednesday is our next coach training in the evening and I've heard it's pretty tough! Thursdays are also a solo day, Fridays we are "off" and then Saturday starts it off again with the big group/coached run. Fundraising is going pretty good! It's been trickling in and I am in such a good mood when I see another donation come in!! I'm not quite half way... but I'll keep you posted!