Yesterday was our first 'official' team run. We met at MIT and were told that we were going to do a short 1 miler. My roommate & I looked at each other in surprise-that was it, only one mile?! We decided that to get a better workout, we were going to extend the distance to 3 miles. So we took off running on the Memorial Drive side of the Esplanade. For those of you not familiar with the area, the Esplanade is a paved trail that runs parallel to the Charles River on both the Cambridge and Boston sides and is a popular place for runners, bikers, in-line skaters and walkers. It stretches quite a few miles and is a great place to people watch. We ran by a group of people who were cheering on rowers in a crew race, up a small hill to the BU boathouse, crossed the BU bridge down to Comm Ave and crossed back into Cambridge over the Mass Ave bridge. It was a beautiful morning and the temperature couldn't have been better.
Since Sunday is our 'long' run day we decided that we'd add on an extra 3 miles later that afternoon. It took a lot of motivation, but around 7:30, we headed out the door again for a quick run around Coolidge Corner. It was a bit of a struggle, my legs were pretty stiff from not stretching properly after the morning's run, but I pushed through it and we finished in about 30 minutes. Needless to say, I slept like a baby last night.
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