The weather was more like early October than November, and it was a little rainy as well, but not too bad. Here is a shot of some of the team clowning around before we got started:
Our head coach, Vicki, talked about our training schedule, then I gave the mission moment. The mission moment is an important TNT tradition, because it reminds us that we are not just a bunch of people getting together for a run. We are trying to help cure cancer, and hopefully what I said reminded people of that. I ended my short talk by saying what an historic week this had been, but how cool it would be if in 10 or 20 years, the president made an announcement that every type of blood cancer had been cured. That would be an incredible piece of history, and everyone who has done Team in Training would have a part of that. Then we did a warm-up lap around Swan Lake:
Our actual training today was pretty short – we each ran or walked 15 minutes and then returned to the park. The goal is that the coaches can get an idea of our pace by seeing how far we got in 15 minutes. In my case, I am going to try to run more, and I covered 2.8 miles in 31 minutes by running about 2/3 of the time. We won’t have formal training for two more weeks because of the Richmond Marathon next weekend, but from now on the training will be longer and more intense, so it was good to take it a little easy today.
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