My Friday's consist of home bound tutoring with a student. I agreed to do this to keep me from wasting money and calories from Happy Hour (and to help the student, of course). However, that plan has back fired. I now leave the student's house at 7pm and bolt to the nearest social gathering. My spending and calorie intake has in fact increased because of how long Friday's have become.
So on this particular Friday, it took everything I had to not respond with "YESSSS!!!!" when my friend texted to see if I wanted to meet up with our friends at a happy hour. I had missed my run not once but TWICE this week. I had to run. I told her no, drove my tired and grumpy self home.
But it was Friday, and I needed some fun. I called up Chapa, my goal setting (and not meeting - we make goals almost once a week that eventually we forget exist) buddy - who I've attempted to convince to join me in this endeavor. He came over and we ran the day's 5k through the downtown McAllen scene. It was fun. Chapa had just run for 30 minutes before that so he was a little more tired than I was. This run I took a little longer, but I didn't mind. I didn't have to meet my goal today - some times it's more important to be a good friend than to obsess about a goal. Chapa and I had our fair share of long walk breaks, and I was okay with that because I know having him there helped push me to get out and just do it. Probably would have walked the whole thing if he didn't join! :)
Day.7.total.time: 37:23 with an average pace of 12:02 with a few unplanned long walk breaks.
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