Short and sweet

Yesterday and today I ran a two-mile loop with a speedy running buddy. Yesterday I trailed behind the whole way and was so out of breath that I was sure we must have been running at 5K pace - only to find that the pace came out to be over 9 minutes per mile. It was a good time, though, and we scheduled another run for today. I thought for sure that this one would be much slower, since I felt that I needed some recovery time. Out on the road I felt that it was slower, too, but it turned out to be a pace of about 8:30 minutes per mile. Not too bad. Maybe we'll keep this up and bring the pace down even more.