Pace Groups!

For the second time, I rose at 5am and drove out to Santa Monica to meet the group at 7am. Sadly, I was unable to participate in the group training today because of a minor surgery I underwent yesterday (to biopsy a breast lump). But I thought it was important to go to the training session anyway to hear any important announcements, plus I really liked the people I met last week and wanted to touch base and say hi!

Before the run, I was able to talk with the other two people in my pace group who were there:

Kristina and Alisha, two of the other “Frank Sorter” pace group members (normally there will be 5-7 of us in the group). We’ll run the training runs together at a 10:30/mile pace- one minute slower than our “race pace” of 9:30/mile



It was a BEAUTIFUL, sunny and clear morning on the California coast. The sun was out and bathing the beach and boardwalk in its warm light. I was able to help the group by holding a “turn around” sign to tell people in the training program where to turn and jog back to the meeting place; a sign that elicited some very confused responses from the other people out enjoying the boardwalk that day.



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The number of U. S. teenagers infected with HIV doubles every 14 months-worldwide, half of all new infections occur in persons between the ages of 15 to 19 years old.

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