SRRC 9er -- Sun. March 29

Finally we got rain today--not snow, as it's really quite mild by now. Still, it was pretty wet, occasionally heavy showers, so I wondered if maybe nobody would be at Dunkins at 10. Hah! Apparently that's what *everyone* thought, and we all turned up--TEN of us (Andy, Jay, Amy, Bill, Ken and me, plus the four high schoolers, two boys and two girls). Amazing! So we headed out thinking about 10 miles using the Enfield route, and there was a splashduel for the first mile or two (Andy and the high school boys, natch). Howard, Jackson, etc. quite slowly, then pushed up the hills a bit, but noone went for the line until we reached the top--then John got Andy going and they sprinted off. Needless to say, John burned out, following Andy in, and I waited to close to the line until I did a bit of a stretch, solo. Nick and Amy battled it, Amy won. Then Andy and I went back to join up with the HS girls, and we jogged with them from there. Got a bit ahead by Jabish, and took that smoothly but not slowly--pretty good feeling; then checked back to see how the girls were doing: they went straight on down the hill, so Andy and I picked it up a bit (low 6s) for the stretch round the high school bit. I faded at the very end; last 3/4 mile was sub 6.
Good run, enfin.

Time: 1:16:08
Distance: 9.33 miles
Pace/Speed: 8:10s/7.35 mph

Comments: good varied pace and conditions (well, wet, but beyond that...). Ended up with a wicked sore nipple cos of the wet: 仕方がない。 SRRC is a real boon: I think most of us wouldn't have run alone... The fast finish with Andy was useful--I really should start to work on speed, as I don't have much right now.