7 miles

did 7 miles with the cara marathon training group today. i'm not sure if it's because i'm in the slowest pace group now or what, but it seems like people aren't taking this whole training thing very seriously. while i'm certainly not as intense about it as i was last year, i am definitely just as dedicated.

there were two girls running behind sb and me - one who talked about how she got sloshed the night before with her dad and the other who talked about how she didn't run at all last week.

on top of that, we kept stopping for unnecessarily long water/bathroom breaks. it was unnecessary because the people who needed to stop acted like they had all day to just dick around. they'd just mosey on back from the bathroom like there weren't 10 other people waiting to get back on the road. what should've taken less than an hour and a half took two hours.

after being at a water stop for about 5 minutes, sb and i finally couldn't take it anymore and left without the group. does that make us the assholes of the day? probably. but i tell ya what - i didn't pay $100 to condition my body to come to a complete stop for 5 minutes every 1.5 miles. i'd like to finish the marathon before they close the course.

tomorrow: cross training
monday: rest