Not in the traditional sense of "hey the weather is nice out".. as far as that goes, it was actually a bit on the humid side.  But the weight of work  and other things was on my shoulders today, and heading out for a run at lunch ended up being a good break from it all.

As I was headed out the door, I (figuratively) ran into Agustin, who was also on his way to run.  His plan was an easy 4 miles.. mine was an easy 4-5.  I convinced him that we could run together and just do 4 miles.  Then, I convinced him to go the opposite direction from where he was headed, and we'd just turn around at 2.  Then... we decided to keep going on the route, and we ended up running about 5 miles at a pace he later admitted was "a little faster than I was going to run.. but good."  Hopefully his coach doesn't get too angry with me for messing with the workout schedule.

We ran a loop that Mandy and I have gone on a few times in the last month. It includes part of town lake, part of shoal creek, some trails, some  pavement, some flat, some hills, some forest, some city, some highway... a little bit of everything, really.  The only problem with the run today was that Mandy is normally the navigator, and I don't pay enough attention to my surroundings.   It could have been worse - I only made a couple wrong turns which were identified very quickly, and as effendi pointed out a few days ago, "wrong turns = more training".  In this case, I think we got about 40 feet or so of extra training.