~3 miles @ ~10 min/mi

Smiling Stephanie arrives a minute after me and at 7:30am we emerge from the SW exit to run around the forest path on a humid morning. Good conversations ensue, including anecdotes about interracial marriage and the general improvement in US society during recent decades on racial issues. I miss taking a starting-line split for the marked-mile and estimate our first one at within a few seconds of 10:00. The second is comfortably brisker at 9:28. Stephanie keeps me honest and doesn't let me walk the steep hills.

^z - 2010-09-23