I'm faster than I thought I was! Yesterday, instead of doing one of my usual meadering, unmeasured routes I decided to bite the bullet and run a few laps of the city park in my neighborhood (it's right close to 1 mile around the perimeter (but not at all flat!)). Now, my watch is not a sports watch at all, just an ordinary wind-up old fashioned watch, so the accuracy might not be so great, but I did the first 2 miles in about 18 minutes-- and I could have gone faster easily. Woohoo!!!

And then this morning I passed a pretty fit looking man who for once was going the same direction as me! Now, I had only been running for about 15 minutes, and he looked like he'd been going a lot longer, but still...

In other words, I'm psyched!