7 miles!

I drove down to Ithaca this morning for the weekly group run. Today we did seven miles and it wasn't too bad. It definitely helps that there is someone in my group who runs at the same pace that I do and she's also a mom with two kids about the same ages as Larsson and Nora so we have things in common to talk about. The miles seem to go faster this way.

Part of our course this morning was on the East Hill Recreation Way which is shady and scenic. We saw two deer right on the path as well as some baby bunnies.

I set my watch when we started out but forgot to stop it right away so I think we did the seven miles in about an hour and 23 minutes.

Almost as soon as I finished running I had to get in my car and drive to Larsson's group violin lesson where Braman was already waiting with the kids. I picked up Nora (who would be disruptive in the class) and Braman took Larsson in for his lesson. Since I could barely make it there in time after running seven miles, I'll never make it there in time once we're doing more than that so I think that Nora may be joining me on the Saturday morning runs. Single jogger here we come.

And those pesky yellow flowers were all over the place. I've got to find out what they are.