An Iowa Run

I haven't blogged for a bit...! However, I have been plenty busy.

I went running for the first time last wednesday! I ran on a street called Oroño it is kind of a main street and in the median there is a nice big sidewalk with benches and trees on both sides!! I ran from my house to that road and then to Independence Park. It was SUPER hot and i was not used to it. I only ran for 20 mins and walked in between :/ I felt really really slow and out of shape...

BUT THEN....

The next night, before dinner, I went running with Lucia, and Noel at 9:30pm. We walked to a park by that mall I went too that used to be a train station. It was JUST a BEAUTIFUL NIGHT!! It was dark out but the park sooo reminded me of all those runs I have taken at night after working at the pool all day. It was humid and hot, the stars were out, there were even locust ( or they sounded EXACTLY like them) buzzing away in the trees! It SMELLED like iowa, with all the grass and dirt and tress, and I think that was the best part.

So we were all running and the park was about 2K around... so about 1.4miles or so. We were going pretty slow.. maybe 8:30 or 9 min mile pace... I was glad to be going slow though because of my run earlier in the week. However it was another one of those runs where you suddenly realize how GREAT it is just to have a running partner and how much easier the run is! Lucia fell back a little bit but Noel and I kept going.. Our pace was right on and I think we even got a little faster at the end :)

It was just soo BEAUTIFUL!! :) As much as it made me miss my xc girls and running partners it was just like they were right there with me in all the smells and sounds of Iowa in that park. :)