Whoopie: Twenty-Three!

Today was our 23-mile "Red Run". We all wore red to make a giant "AIDS Ribbon" through Santa Monica. It was cool to se everybody coordinated, and it made it easier to tell when we ran by the other people in our training program (usually there are so many runners in Santa Monica in the morning, it's hard to tell). It was an overcast morning, with rain when I woke up that turned into a light drizzle that continued for the whole morning. It was great running weather becasue it didn't get too hot,in fact we ran the 23-miler faster than we had run the 20-miler!



Christina was the only other person from my pace group who showed up today, but we had a lot of fun (including having fun with the "LA Leggers", another training program that runs in Santa Monica, and has enormous groups of people running in a huge pack, and some of them have their names printed on their shirts, so we'd run by and say "Hey! Larry! Looking Good!" or "Whoa, Eva! Too Fast!") and we had some really great conversation.

We're getting so close to the marathon, I can almost taste it; only 1 more long run before the actual marathon (26-Mile "Celebration Run" on November 12). I can't wait!

AIDS Fact:
More than 1,700 children under the age of 15 years are infected with HIV every day.

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Thank You!:
Alice West