In addition to Fleeing to the Warm Toasty Indoor Gym, the #1 secret weapon to make sure you get your runs in, there is also secret weapon #2, Positive Peer Pressure. If you talk to one of your teammates and say, "Hey, let's meet at the trailhead tomorrow at 2:00," you had BETTER be at the trailhead at 2:00!
This is how I got to spend a lovely afternoon with Renee. Renee is, for lack of a better word, awesome. She had foot surgery a year ago and couldn't walk for months, and now she's training to walk a half-marathon. (Or a full marathon. It could go either way.) She's also smart and funny. I desperately wanted to take her picture for the blog, but she wouldn't let me, so no Renee for you. And I have horrific hat hair in the picture she took of me, so I'm not posting it.
Since Renee's a walker and I'm a runner, I had to sort of run off ahead of her and then double back to her a few times. It worked out reasonably well, and we both got our miles in before making a beeline for the lovely bakery nearby, where I proceeded to do another incredibly bizarre thing that never even would have occurred to me in my pre-running days. I had a bright blue yoga mat with me, and I matter-of-factly unrolled it on the floor of the bakery (with a little help from the owner's three year-old nephew) and did my stretching exercises. Renee said later she should have taken a picture of me doing THAT.
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